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A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) News and Media "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere News and Media
People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher News and Media I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward News and Media
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) News and Media Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec News and Media
Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) News and Media That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana News and Media
The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway News and Media "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President News and Media
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell News and Media The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) News and Media
Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) News and Media Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson News and Media
I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh 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 Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire News and Media "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) News and Media
All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) News and Media Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde News and Media
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton "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 A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem News and Media The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais News and Media
The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe News and Media "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) I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton News and Media
