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"Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) News and Media The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland News and Media
Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) News and Media "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams News and Media
My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) News and Media Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom News and Media
Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B News and Media I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno News and Media
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers News and Media Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous News and Media
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort News and Media There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison News and Media
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. News and Media "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) News and Media
"Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) 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 "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) News and Media Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) News and Media
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) News and Media "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte News and Media
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. News and Media We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) News and Media
We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H News and Media The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw News and Media
