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The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) News Agencies Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) News Agencies
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx News Agencies What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld News Agencies
It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov News Agencies Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) News Agencies
If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 News Agencies One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde News Agencies
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) News Agencies Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway News Agencies
There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx News Agencies Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l News Agencies
"Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) News Agencies 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
of Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) News Agencies
Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin News Agencies He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) News Agencies
"Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill News Agencies The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen News Agencies
Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo "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 News Agencies What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, News Agencies
Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld News Agencies "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) News Agencies
