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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 To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw News and Media "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman News and Media
If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber 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) Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton News and Media
"It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw News and Media I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi News and Media
A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort News and Media "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) News and Media
I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) News and Media My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) News and Media
Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. News and Media Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) News and Media
I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson News and Media To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu "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) Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden News and Media
I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy News and Media Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton News and Media
The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau "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) "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton News and Media Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph News and Media
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) News and Media Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) "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 News and Media
The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) News and Media If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) News and Media
