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He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous News and Media Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer News and Media
Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz News and Media Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham News and Media
"If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) News and Media "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost News and Media
"Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides News and Media Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz News and Media
Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George News and Media "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) News and Media
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost News and Media Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy News and Media
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis News and Media There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich News and Media
When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx News and Media "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton News and Media
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings "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 How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." News and Media "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot News and Media
You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward News and Media Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be News and Media
"Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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-) You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw News and Media "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort News and Media
