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You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain News and Media There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) News and Media
It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp News and Media I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov News and Media
"You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud News and Media "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine News and Media
Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) News and Media 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 I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. News and Media
Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) News and Media Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. News and Media
There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. "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 A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe News and Media All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler News and Media
"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) Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) News and Media Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) News and Media
Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous News and Media Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley News and Media
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder News and Media The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) News and Media
I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. 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 News and Media "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein News and Media
They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) News and Media "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) News and Media
