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In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) 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 With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer News and Media "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan News and Media
blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous News and Media "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) Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President News and Media
"There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long News and Media The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus "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 News and Media
The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with News and Media Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) News and Media
The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Marriage is a rest period between romances. There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song News and Media Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) News and Media
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper News and Media When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa 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
"Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche News and Media "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder News and Media
Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. News and Media The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen News and Media
The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) News and Media Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) News and Media
Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein News and Media "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain News and Media
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain News and Media Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) News and Media
