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Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston News and Media An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes 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 "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) News and Media
Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life 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 More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening News and Media
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 In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet News and Media Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge News and Media
You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 News and Media "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset News and Media
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht News and Media To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, News and Media
A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) 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 "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) News and Media It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage News and Media
He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 News and Media A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh News and Media
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre News and Media "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. 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
I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi News and Media Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. News and Media
"We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos 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 "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) News and Media blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch News and Media
I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) News and Media If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's News and Media
