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We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) News and Media I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. News and Media
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson News and Media Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan News and Media
"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) To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) News and Media Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki News and Media
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) News and Media Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein News and Media
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
News and Media Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker News and Media
Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx News and Media Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman News and Media
The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) News and Media I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke News and Media
Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils News and Media "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 "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali News and Media
When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) News and Media Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain News and Media
Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle News and Media Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) News and Media
Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken News and Media Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken News and Media
