God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure News and Media "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) News and Media
"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) Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer News and Media "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz News and Media
Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler News and Media The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) News and Media
There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) News and Media Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) News and Media
"It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull News and Media "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? News and Media
"I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl News and Media Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron 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 empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) News and Media "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot News and Media
"Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke News and Media Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost News and Media
It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a News and Media It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) News and Media
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) News and Media There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber News and Media
Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) News and Media "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good News and Media
