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The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Pebmarsh Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Pebmarsh
There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Pebmarsh I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Pebmarsh
Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Pebmarsh There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Pebmarsh
Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Pebmarsh "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) "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) "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Pebmarsh
"A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Pebmarsh We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Pebmarsh
"What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Pebmarsh "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Pebmarsh
Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Pebmarsh To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Pebmarsh
What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Pebmarsh "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Pebmarsh
I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh 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 Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Pebmarsh Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Pebmarsh
"Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) 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 Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Pebmarsh I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Pebmarsh
Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Pebmarsh Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Pebmarsh
