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Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Independent Radio Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Independent Radio
"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Independent Radio Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Independent Radio
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Independent Radio Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. 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 Nietzsche In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Independent Radio
Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Independent Radio If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Independent Radio
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Independent Radio "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Independent Radio
He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Independent Radio I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Independent Radio
Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Independent Radio Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Independent Radio
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Independent Radio "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Independent Radio
Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Independent Radio 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Independent Radio
He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger "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 Independent Radio The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Independent Radio
We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Independent Radio "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Independent Radio
