Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin News and Media Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) News and Media
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) "... 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) More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne News and Media "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's 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. "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) News and Media
"It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) News and Media Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais News and Media
Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry 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 "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo News and Media
"I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli News and Media "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words News and Media
"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board News and Media "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) News and Media
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) News and Media Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French News and Media
Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. "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 News and Media Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi News and Media
"If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards News and Media "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken News and Media
You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening News and Media Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte News and Media
I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point News and Media "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) News and Media
