Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein 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 "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw News and Media
As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) News and Media The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) News and Media
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen News and Media "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson News and Media
When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres News and Media When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb News and Media
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler News and Media I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. News and Media
It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler News and Media Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) News and Media
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s News and Media Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming News and Media
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly "Think off-center." (George Carlin) The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) News and Media Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi News and Media
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson News and Media To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner News and Media
The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson News and Media The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) News and Media
"If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee News and Media Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb News and Media
