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"If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde North Wall Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) North Wall
To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous North Wall I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau North Wall
Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie North Wall Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman North Wall
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman North Wall The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge North Wall
When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) North Wall A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha North Wall
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty North Wall "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman North Wall
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) North Wall "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) North Wall
Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane North Wall I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn North Wall
Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) North Wall To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton North Wall
"Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) North Wall Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes North Wall
Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry North Wall blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) North Wall
