"Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) News and Media It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley News and Media
"What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart News and Media The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) News and Media
Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover News and Media It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen News and Media
Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire News and Media Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers News and Media
"It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. News and Media Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry News and Media
I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor News and Media "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon News and Media
The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein News and Media "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre News and Media
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd News and Media Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein News and Media
A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 News and Media We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 News and Media
Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous News and Media Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) News and Media
When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy News and Media There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France News and Media
