All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Radio "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Radio
"Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Radio Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley 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 Radio
"Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Radio "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
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America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Radio Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
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I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Radio Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Radio
We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Radio "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Radio
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Radio I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Radio
"If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Radio If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Radio
"'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko "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 Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Radio For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
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Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Radio The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Radio
Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Radio The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Radio
