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"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-) The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard English-Language News The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) English-Language News
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain English-Language News Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou English-Language News
Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White English-Language News Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde English-Language News
Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe English-Language News There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 English-Language News
Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf English-Language News Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland "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 Wilhelm Nietzsche) English-Language News
Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) English-Language News My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer English-Language News
When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) English-Language News The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous English-Language News
"I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin English-Language News I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman English-Language News
Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis English-Language News The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos English-Language News
"He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George 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 English-Language News Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer English-Language News
I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster English-Language News To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns English-Language News
