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God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) News and Media Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo News and Media
"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy News and Media "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. News and Media
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes "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) Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge News and Media A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch News and Media
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous News and Media This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) News and Media
If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti 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 The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short News and Media Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle News and Media
"Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins News and Media "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "... 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) blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) News and Media
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt News and Media "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac "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
"I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury News and Media Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland "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.) News and Media
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde News and Media I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford News and Media
The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara News and Media I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson 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 great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi News and Media I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra News and Media
