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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 Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) News and Media A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje News and Media
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi News and Media It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche News and Media
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) News and Media The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski News and Media
Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die 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 "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) 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 Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop News and Media
The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) News and Media Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton News and Media
"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen News and Media Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils News and Media
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) News and Media Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived News and Media
When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) News and Media If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin News and Media
I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings News and Media For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. 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 Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot News and Media
"Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) News and Media I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening News and Media
Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana News and Media Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw News and Media
