"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-) Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Contemporary "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Contemporary
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 This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Contemporary "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) Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
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The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Contemporary The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Contemporary
Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Contemporary Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Contemporary
"Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Contemporary Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Contemporary
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Contemporary "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Contemporary
Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Contemporary "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Contemporary
Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Contemporary A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham 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 Contemporary
What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Contemporary Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Contemporary
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer "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) Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Contemporary I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Contemporary
Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Contemporary Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Contemporary
