Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen News and Media "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual News and Media
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein News and Media The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) News and Media
Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers News and Media "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) News and Media
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 "'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) News and Media "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) News and Media
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham News and Media It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words News and Media
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "'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) Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words News and Media "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton News and Media
"Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle News and Media There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West News and Media
"I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley 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 News and Media "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer News and Media
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana News and Media The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale 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, News and Media
The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni 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 Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. News and Media A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings News and Media
Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) News and Media A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell News and Media
