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Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal News and Media The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain News and Media
There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 News and Media Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita News and Media
"I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker News and Media Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung News and Media
Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson 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" News and Media A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position News and Media
"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw News and Media Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White News and Media
"All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i 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 Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller News and Media "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle News and Media
"I love to doubt as well as know." (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 "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. News and Media The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) "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 News and Media
"Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster News and Media The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) News and Media
Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
News and Media Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn News and Media
I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner News and Media "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers News and Media
Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger News and Media Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt News and Media
