"If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken "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) Vest-Agder Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Vest-Agder
Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Vest-Agder Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Vest-Agder
"I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) 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 "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Vest-Agder It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Vest-Agder
The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Vest-Agder "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Vest-Agder
Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Vest-Agder Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Vest-Agder
"I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Vest-Agder 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 "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Vest-Agder
"Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Vest-Agder "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Vest-Agder
"When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Vest-Agder "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Vest-Agder
Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Vest-Agder "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Vest-Agder
Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Vest-Agder Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux 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 All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Vest-Agder
Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Vest-Agder 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 "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Vest-Agder
