"The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
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-- Jonathan S. Haas Radio "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Radio
The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
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-- Arthur Godfrey Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Radio Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
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-- Wil Shriner I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
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-- Joseph Addison Radio
Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Radio "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) 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 "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Radio
And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning 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 To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Radio "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) Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Radio
2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Radio After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Radio
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Radio Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Radio
"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) Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Radio The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Radio
It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Radio My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. "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) May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Radio
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Radio Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Radio
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Radio "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Radio
"The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Radio "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Radio
