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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 Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill News and Media "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst News and Media
Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein News and Media Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford News and Media
Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth News and Media The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown News and Media
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck News and Media "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler News and Media
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe News and Media People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) News and Media
If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus News and Media Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position News and Media
Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw News and Media Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince News and Media
If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words 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 "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) News and Media Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) News and Media
I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi May you never leave your marriage alive. News and Media A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) News and Media
"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY News and Media I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion News and Media
"A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe News and Media The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) News and Media
