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We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life 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 I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder News and Media Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost News and Media
"I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor News and Media He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) "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) News and Media
When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson News and Media Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus News and Media
The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan News and Media Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway News and Media
"The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain News and Media "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus News and Media
"Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle News and Media And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham News and Media
Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell News and Media I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart News and Media
"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne News and Media Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman "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 "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) News and Media
... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) 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 The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) News and Media It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard 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
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows News and Media Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway "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 History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill News and Media
When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity News and Media Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 News and Media
