One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton "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) "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain News and Media It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville News and Media
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov News and Media Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
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"Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) 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 Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe News and Media Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant News and Media
Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx News and Media There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln News and Media
The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) News and Media "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 News and Media
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder News and Media A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. News and Media
"The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 News and Media I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, News and Media
"Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche News and Media "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese 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 News and Media
If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster 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 News and Media Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House News and Media
He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 News and Media Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ News and Media
A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) News and Media We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from 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,
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