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"Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton News and Media Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin News and Media
Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman News and Media "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') Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 News and Media
You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) News and Media Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) News and Media
Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce 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 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 Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall News and Media No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge News and Media
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) News and Media Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And News and Media
"The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo News and Media If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell News and Media
"Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie News and Media When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein News and Media
When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars 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 "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) News and Media Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) 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 Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker 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) "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz News and Media
Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi News and Media Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) News and Media
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) News and Media All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Men have become the tools of their tools.
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