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"When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg 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 May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. 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 Education "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Education
Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. 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 "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Education Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Education
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Education I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Education
Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Education 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 The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Education
If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Education The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Education
"Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Education "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Education
One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Education The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Education
May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Education The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Education
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 Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Education "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Education
blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Education Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Education
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Education
