There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne News and Media However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. News and Media
Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx News and Media I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France News and Media
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland News and Media When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. News and Media
"Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig News and Media This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain News and Media
He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) News and Media Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") News and Media
In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. News and Media A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) News and Media
Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm News and Media If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait News and Media
We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous News and Media "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane News and Media
There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck News and Media I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte News and Media
The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari News and Media "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier News and Media
I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle News and Media Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson News and Media
