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"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen News and Media Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
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"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford News and Media "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) News and Media
Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni News and Media "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst News and Media
"The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott News and Media Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. News and Media
This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost 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 Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) News and Media We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde News and Media
If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) News and Media Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx News and Media
Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe News and Media "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo News and Media
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) News and Media Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover News and Media
Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY News and Media I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, News and Media
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin News and Media One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) News and Media
What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. 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, "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, News and Media Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster News and Media
