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"I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) News and Media The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright News and Media
In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) News and Media Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) News and Media
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb News and Media The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins News and Media
Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham News and Media "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
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"Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead News and Media Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal News and Media
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller News and Media It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius News and Media
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley News and Media In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt News and Media
Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard News and Media May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde News and Media
"I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz News and Media The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne News and Media
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 When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. News and Media "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer News and Media
"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) News and Media "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar News and Media
