"Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley 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 "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Religion The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Religion
This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Religion "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "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) We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Religion
Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Religion You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Religion
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 Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Religion "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Religion
Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Religion Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Religion
The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) 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 second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Religion "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Religion
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Religion I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Religion
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Religion The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Religion
There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Religion The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Religion
Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Religion "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) 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 "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Religion
The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Religion Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Religion
