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Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy News and Media "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken News and Media
I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? News and Media I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal News and Media
Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy 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 News and Media "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. 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 News and Media
An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) News and Media Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous News and Media
Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet News and Media Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau News and Media
I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson News and Media He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason News and Media
"Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo News and Media "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST News and Media
I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to News and Media Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan News and Media
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms News and Media Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl News and Media
When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday News and Media One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert News and Media
Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright News and Media Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw News and Media
