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Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) News and Media "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) News and Media
There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken News and Media The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) News and Media
Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi News and Media "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) News and Media
"For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. News and Media If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce News and Media
You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein News and Media "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham News and Media
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand News and Media "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) News and Media
I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) News and Media Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor News and Media
Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars News and Media "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) News and Media
After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke 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 The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) News and Media
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( News and Media "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
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Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "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.) There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey News and Media Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein News and Media
