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"A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere News and Media Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken News and Media
The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) News and Media Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton News and Media
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise News and Media Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx News and Media
The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan News and Media Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) News and Media
May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin News and Media I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford News and Media
"Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne News and Media "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf News and Media
If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) News and Media "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w News and Media
I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) News and Media Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël News and Media
"Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph News and Media My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes News and Media
Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) News and Media A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham News and Media
If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor News and Media The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) News and Media
