Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde News and Media That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. News and Media
The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
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 "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo News and Media More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') News and Media
"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u News and Media For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson News and Media
This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa News and Media "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison News and Media
Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) News and Media There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle News and Media
Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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) News and Media A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! News and Media
"The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game News and Media Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol News and Media
Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier News and Media The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle News and Media
"Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason News and Media Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman News and Media
Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln News and Media "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) My other wife is beautiful. "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) News and Media
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 If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood News and Media Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) News and Media
