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All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett "'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, Through the Looking Glass) Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) News and Media By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo News and Media
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie News and Media Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz News and Media
"Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde News and Media I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) News and Media
What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV 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 You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken News and Media The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard News and Media
As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) News and Media Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) News and Media
"Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) 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 "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner News and Media
My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh News and Media Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show News and Media
All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin News and Media There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh News and Media
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 Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin News and Media With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce News and Media
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde 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 News and Media Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) News and Media
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric News and Media The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the News and Media
