"I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) News and Media "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley News and Media
Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. News and Media "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H News and Media
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov News and Media "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic News and Media
If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
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 News and Media Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau News and Media
Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making 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 Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith News and Media Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones News and Media
Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) News and Media Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) News and Media
There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich 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 After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare News and Media Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht News and Media
"These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley News and Media Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words News and Media
The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard My other wife is beautiful. Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken News and Media "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) News and Media
However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) "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 We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) News and Media
Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton News and Media "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes News and Media
