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Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Newspapers Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Newspapers
"Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Newspapers What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Newspapers
Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Newspapers "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Newspapers
I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Newspapers The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Newspapers
"Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Newspapers The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Newspapers
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Newspapers A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Newspapers
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 Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Newspapers Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Newspapers
I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Newspapers 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 He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Newspapers
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Newspapers Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Newspapers
"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Newspapers If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Newspapers
Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Newspapers Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Newspapers
