We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good News and Media "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion News and Media
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel News and Media America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) News and Media
A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe News and Media Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) News and Media
"The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti News and Media When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde News and Media
Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet News and Media Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins News and Media
Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon News and Media Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous News and Media
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John News and Media If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe News and Media
When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly News and Media Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld News and Media
blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) News and Media There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire News and Media
What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell News and Media "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) News and Media
"That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) News and Media Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) News and Media
