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There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 News and Media Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb News and Media
We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr News and Media "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins News and Media
Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous News and Media Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante News and Media
We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) News and Media We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) News and Media
I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, News and Media I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) News and Media
A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) News and Media Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw News and Media
Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) News and Media If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper News and Media
Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom 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 "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings News and Media Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince News and Media
The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman News and Media "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw News and Media
"The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) News and Media A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland News and Media
The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia News and Media The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot News and Media
