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Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. News and Media "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem News and Media
"College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa News and Media A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back News and Media
A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion News and Media "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere News and Media
Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) News and Media Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 News and Media
A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) News and Media Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 News and Media
We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde News and Media When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire 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 News and Media
There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) News and Media 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 Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST News and Media
"What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce 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 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 "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) News and Media
"Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin News and Media 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 Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper News and Media
"Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) News and Media blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor News and Media
Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) News and Media LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Use your own best judgment at all times.
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