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The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin News and Media "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James News and Media
"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) News and Media I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac News and Media
Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt News and Media A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) News and Media
"You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) News and Media "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James News and Media
"If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. News and Media "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) News and Media
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous News and Media Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson News and Media
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh News and Media 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 In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman News and Media
The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') 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 News and Media "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves News and Media
My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw News and Media "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare News and Media
I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) News and Media "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and News and Media
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 The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time News and Media Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein News and Media
