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Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle News and Media We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf News and Media
"It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla News and Media "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins News and Media
If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) News and Media Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler News and Media
The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha 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 News and Media Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be News and Media
And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca News and Media The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. News and Media
Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? News and Media Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson News and Media
This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 News and Media "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) News and Media
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 The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies 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 Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back News and Media An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy News and Media
There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words News and Media "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words News and Media
Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) News and Media Spinster: A bachelor's wife. One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual 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 News and Media
Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) News and Media This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) News and Media
