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"Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill News and Media I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric News and Media
I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde News and Media Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf News and Media
"That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert News and Media By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus News and Media
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch News and Media cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert News and Media
"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley News and Media It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous News and Media
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. News and Media 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 I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around News and Media
It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) News and Media I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin 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 News and Media
It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal "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 The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) News and Media He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words News and Media
People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous News and Media Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin News and Media
The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie News and Media The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) News and Media
Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms News and Media Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." News and Media
