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"It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor News and Media "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) News and Media
Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi News and Media "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) News and Media
Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn News and Media Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel News and Media
Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) News and Media "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton News and Media
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived News and Media A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. News and Media
Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost 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 The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer News and Media 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 No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard News and Media
"Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife News and Media Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith News and Media
In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken News and Media Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) News and Media
A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck News and Media All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou News and Media
Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous News and Media "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson News and Media
A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith News and Media Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes News and Media
