Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce News and Media Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) News and Media
"I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein News and Media How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy News and Media
"Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll News and Media When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) News and Media
I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) News and Media "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein News and Media
A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) News and Media Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre 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 blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran News and Media
"I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi "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 Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler News and Media The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi News and Media
"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) News and Media "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) News and Media
A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman News and Media Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous News and Media
"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good News and Media I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon News and Media
Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber News and Media Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde News and Media
"Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) News and Media Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle News and Media
