Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric News and Media Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) News and Media
My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White News and Media Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde News and Media
I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) News and Media You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy News and Media
"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) If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) News and Media Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos News and Media
Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard News and Media Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks News and Media
What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) News and Media An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) News and Media
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow 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 When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson News and Media Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur News and Media
All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 News and Media "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) "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) News and Media
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) News and Media That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf News and Media
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" News and Media To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer News and Media
Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei News and Media I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) News and Media
