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Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) News and Media What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
"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) Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck News and Media A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) News and Media
Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) 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 "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming News and Media Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) News and Media
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) 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 "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi News and Media We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) News and Media
"The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein News and Media Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol News and Media
Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne News and Media The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein 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 The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo News and Media
Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson 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 News and Media We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. News and Media
Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla News and Media "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) News and Media
"Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire News and Media It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol News and Media
A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez News and Media There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara News and Media
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel News and Media "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) "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." Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III News and Media
