"I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur News and Media Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford News and Media
"Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset News and Media "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers 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 News and Media
A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall 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 Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) News and Media "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen News and Media
In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth News and Media The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) News and Media
If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa News and Media We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe "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) News and Media
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance "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) "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) News and Media There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) News and Media
"We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be News and Media "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) "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 Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle News and Media
There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer News and Media "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses News and Media
Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) News and Media "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton News and Media
"Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln News and Media Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams News and Media
Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' News and Media Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) News and Media
