Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening News and Media I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George News and Media
"Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West News and Media Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet News and Media
I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson News and Media We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) News and Media
"I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle News and Media CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope News and Media
Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor News and Media "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous News and Media
He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) 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 When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) News and Media I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good News and Media
Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. News and Media 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 Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner News and Media
Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi News and Media It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford News and Media
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 "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) News and Media There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine News and Media
Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) News and Media The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. News and Media
Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist News and Media In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous News and Media
