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"... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw News and Media May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) News and Media
If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin News and Media All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf News and Media
"Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President News and Media 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 The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) News and Media
Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) News and Media There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) News and Media
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 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 Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) News and Media 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 Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud News and Media
For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) News and Media Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern News and Media
There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola News and Media The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway News and Media
"When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde 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) When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe News and Media Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke News and Media
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one News and Media Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor News and Media
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton News and Media Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) News and Media
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein News and Media If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager 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 News and Media
