A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr "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 Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce News and Media
"If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) News and Media Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx News and Media
I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford "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) The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein News and Media "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) 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 Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. News and Media
It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal 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 News and Media "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen News and Media
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson News and Media Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France News and Media
"Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) News and Media "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau News and Media
The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show News and Media "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 Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea News and Media
All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra "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 "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) News and Media Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) News and Media
We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca News and Media Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers News and Media
Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone News and Media It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert News and Media
Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley 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 Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb News and Media Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken News and Media
