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Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton News and Media Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) News and Media
Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law News and Media "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese News and Media
Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show News and Media I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) News and Media
Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous 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 During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard News and Media In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth News and Media
It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola 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 The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) News and Media
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell News and Media There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower News and Media
It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) News and Media Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James News and Media
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte 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 We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves News and Media How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx News and Media
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx News and Media When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland 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 This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl News and Media
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) News and Media Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln News and Media
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? News and Media "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
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