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Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Gainford The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Gainford
The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Gainford "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Gainford
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Gainford We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Gainford
The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Gainford My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Gainford
"Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Gainford In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) 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
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"As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Gainford The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Gainford
Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Gainford There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Gainford
"I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Gainford 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. Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Gainford
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Gainford "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Gainford
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly 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 "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Gainford Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Gainford
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Gainford It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Gainford
