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The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Radio Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Radio
"Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Man and wife make one fool. Radio Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman 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 "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Radio
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 Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Radio In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Radio
All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Radio Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Radio
Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Radio "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Radio
Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Radio Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Radio
Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Radio All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Radio
Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Radio "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) 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 Radio
Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Radio The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Radio
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. Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Radio Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Radio
Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Radio Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Radio
