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True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo News and Media >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. News and Media
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. News and Media I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. News and Media
Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock News and Media If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna News and Media
"I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers News and Media Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) News and Media
"Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey News and Media All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard News and Media
The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) News and Media "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte News and Media
Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce News and Media Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury News and Media
"Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) News and Media "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw News and Media
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) News and Media I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince News and Media
My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard News and Media Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) News and Media
It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson News and Media "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton News and Media
