We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi News and Media Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius News and Media
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) News and Media People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan News and Media
Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins 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 Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson News and Media "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) May you never leave your marriage alive. In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m News and Media
I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde "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) We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) News and Media A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain News and Media
"The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) News and Media I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe News and Media
For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder News and Media The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) News and Media
If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln News and Media Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review 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 I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th News and Media "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele News and Media
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) News and Media To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio News and Media
He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp News and Media Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan News and Media
blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner News and Media "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker News and Media
