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I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle News and Media If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz News and Media
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein News and Media May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde News and Media
blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur News and Media Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal News and Media
There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran News and Media All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 News and Media
Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein News and Media Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed News and Media
Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe News and Media I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume News and Media
The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) "Think off-center." (George Carlin) "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) News and Media The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) News and Media
The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr 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 As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton News and Media I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler News and Media
I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere 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 NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne News and Media
Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward News and Media It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick News and Media
Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life News and Media Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. News and Media
