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Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw News and Media 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 I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli News and Media
CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart 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 News and Media He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along News and Media
Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law News and Media "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) News and Media
blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx "Think off-center." (George Carlin) "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe News and Media "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p News and Media
Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea News and Media Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde News and Media
"Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli 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 The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson News and Media
Man and wife make one fool. "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings 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 News and Media A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 News and Media
Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and News and Media "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) News and Media
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill News and Media There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
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He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland News and Media Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt News and Media
Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu News and Media History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce "... 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
