Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Education "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Education
In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Education
In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Education Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Education
My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Education Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Education
I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Education There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Education
Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Education Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Education The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Education
"We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Education "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Education
A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Education I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Education
Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Education Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin 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 "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Education "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Education
