A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! News and Media The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley 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 "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) News and Media
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort News and Media Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh News and Media
I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf News and Media Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) News and Media
A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) News and Media Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf News and Media
"Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst News and Media "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop News and Media
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde News and Media No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o News and Media
Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words News and Media If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) News and Media
A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill News and Media "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa News and Media
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) News and Media If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. News and Media
"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 money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz News and Media Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) News and Media
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) News and Media The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
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