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In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott 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. Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast News and Media "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) News and Media
"Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese News and Media How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel "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) News and Media
Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) News and Media Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) News and Media
Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde News and Media "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) If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde News and Media
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde News and Media An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan News and Media
Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) News and Media It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana News and Media
Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 News and Media Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas News and Media
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde News and Media There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf News and Media
"One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) News and Media The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom News and Media
"Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster News and Media "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) News and Media
It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius News and Media "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married News and Media
