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"Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt News and Media Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz News and Media
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- News and Media I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester News and Media
"Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 News and Media "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
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I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words 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 "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx News and Media Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) News and Media
Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. News and Media A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe News and Media
Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan News and Media "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn News and Media
Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau "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) I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) News and Media Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) News and Media
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre News and Media When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous News and Media
Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde News and Media The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall News and Media
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin News and Media When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker News and Media
Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey News and Media Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville News and Media
