An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W News and Media I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. News and Media
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) News and Media Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words News and Media
I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein 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 "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) News and Media "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
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-- Adlai Stevenson 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 News and Media
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 News and Media 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 I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw News and Media
It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) News and Media You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson News and Media
If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) News and Media "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant News and Media
Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain News and Media Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. "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 Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock News and Media
In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde News and Media "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Marriage is a rest period between romances. News and Media
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 When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) News and Media Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk News and Media
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 Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton News and Media The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern News and Media
We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous News and Media Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
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