Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Government Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Government
Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Government "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Government
blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Government Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Government
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Government 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 Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Government
Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Government Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther 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 Government
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Government Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker "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.) "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Government
"In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Government "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Government
"Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Government A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Government
"When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Government We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Government
If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Government "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Government
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Government Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker 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 Government
