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Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Radio I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Radio
"Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Radio Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Radio
"The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Radio "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Radio
"One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Radio The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Radio
Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words 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
The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Radio "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Radio
"Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Radio Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Radio
NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Radio "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) 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
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"I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Radio Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Radio
Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Radio One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Radio
"Think off-center." (George Carlin) The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Radio By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Radio
There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Radio Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Radio
