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The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn News and Media When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle News and Media
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) News and Media We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran News and Media
May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson News and Media To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire News and Media
It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster News and Media Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi News and Media
"...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) News and Media "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str News and Media
Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs 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 Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) News and Media
Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a News and Media Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw News and Media
In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell News and Media Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics News and Media
A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) News and Media If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein News and Media
It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods News and Media Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) News and Media
When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein News and Media Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. News and Media
