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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 Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi News and Media My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman News and Media
The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e News and Media The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) News and Media
"Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry News and Media "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous News and Media
Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) News and Media Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine News and Media
We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "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) "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale News and Media The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley 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 The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, News and Media
If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) News and Media My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri News and Media
"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous News and Media .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea News and Media
"The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke News and Media A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett News and Media
Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung News and Media Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) News and Media
I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz News and Media 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 This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein News and Media
"I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 News and Media Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer "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.) 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings News and Media
