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Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra News and Media It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) News and Media
An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford News and Media It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) News and Media
If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain News and Media Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous News and Media
He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) News and Media Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) News and Media
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) News and Media Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde "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) News and Media
"The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons News and Media "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson 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 "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham 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 News and Media "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 News and Media
Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw News and Media "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo News and Media
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard 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 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 Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski News and Media "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost News and Media
No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I "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 The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple News and Media "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi News and Media
The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) News and Media Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous News and Media
