A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth News and Media What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived News and Media
"Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton News and Media "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein News and Media
"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 When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers 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 didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain News and Media If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST News and Media
It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown News and Media Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein News and Media
"You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous News and Media Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle News and Media
When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H News and Media "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn News and Media
The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw News and Media If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal News and Media
One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. 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 Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere News and Media
"Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx News and Media Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner News and Media
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 In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous News and Media No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) News and Media
In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz News and Media Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher News and Media
