The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard News and Media You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi News and Media
"Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld News and Media He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) News and Media
"My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) News and Media Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan News and Media
I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack News and Media Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard News and Media
I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward News and Media The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney News and Media
In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde News and Media A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli News and Media
Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud News and Media A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting News and Media
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell News and Media blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin News and Media
Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley News and Media Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler 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 "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) News and Media
Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless News and Media The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery News and Media
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) 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.
-- "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) News and Media Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene News and Media
