When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner 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 Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons News and Media My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) News and Media
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews News and Media "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche News and Media
The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) News and Media "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. 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 a News and Media
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) News and Media Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen News and Media
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson News and Media Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein 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
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back News and Media Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) 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 Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles News and Media To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow News and Media
He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century News and Media Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman 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 It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche News and Media Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) News and Media
the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde News and Media blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore News and Media
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) News and Media 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 "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) News and Media
