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Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils 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 Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks News and Media "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) News and Media
You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. News and Media Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? News and Media
Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) News and Media 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 "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell News and Media
Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein News and Media The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes News and Media
ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str 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 Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe News and Media Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman News and Media
"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) News and Media True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck "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
All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) News and Media Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill News and Media
Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) News and Media We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh News and Media
All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner News and Media "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde News and Media
Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell News and Media A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen News and Media
your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) News and Media A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton News and Media
