Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Arts and Entertainment Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Arts and Entertainment
To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Arts and Entertainment Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Arts and Entertainment
Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Arts and Entertainment There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Arts and Entertainment
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell What's new? Most of my wife. Arts and Entertainment Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment
The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) 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 Arts and Entertainment The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Arts and Entertainment
"The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Arts and Entertainment A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Arts and Entertainment
Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Arts and Entertainment However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Arts and Entertainment
You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Arts and Entertainment "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 advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Arts and Entertainment
My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Arts and Entertainment 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 Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Arts and Entertainment
Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Arts and Entertainment I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Arts and Entertainment
If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Arts and Entertainment As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment
