blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) News and Media I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov News and Media
"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe News and Media A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw News and Media
If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death News and Media Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore News and Media
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus 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 Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy News and Media "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer News and Media
"Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words News and Media Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) News and Media
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) 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 The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. News and Media
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is News and Media Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 News and Media
The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) "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 Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii News and Media May you never leave your marriage alive. "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill News and Media
Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic News and Media "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb News and Media
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) News and Media "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) 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 Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous News and Media
Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie "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) 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 The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf News and Media
