"Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan News and Media "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker News and Media
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 The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown News and Media Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
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"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham "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) Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton News and Media Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott News and Media
"Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to "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 "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. News and Media
I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau News and Media "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman News and Media
"In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli News and Media If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson News and Media
The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz News and Media They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck News and Media
Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson News and Media "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen News and Media
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
coachin Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde News and Media We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. News and Media
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. News and Media I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche News and Media
Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) News and Media "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. News and Media
