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They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill News and Media UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) News and Media
"There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) News and Media The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. "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) When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France News and Media
Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) News and Media We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin News and Media
Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 News and Media I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) News and Media
"When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) "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) No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack News and Media Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw News and Media
"The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf News and Media In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. News and Media
"In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure News and Media Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard News and Media
"The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) News and Media There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare News and Media
"Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance News and Media "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins News and Media
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal News and Media "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous News and Media
"I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln News and Media We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 News and Media
