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I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy News and Media We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns News and Media
There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa News and Media "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. News and Media
Marriage is a rest period between romances. Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld News and Media A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi News and Media
"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 A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe News and Media A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner 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 Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow News and Media "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
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Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber "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 News and Media Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that News and Media
If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl News and Media This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin News and Media
"To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry News and Media Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And News and Media
The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) News and Media The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw News and Media
Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) 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 Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken News and Media
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) News and Media "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous News and Media
