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The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France News and Media We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes News and Media
I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) News and Media Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson News and Media
Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton News and Media "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe News and Media
"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 Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) News and Media I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus News and Media
Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) News and Media What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers News and Media
When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George News and Media The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton News and Media
The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon News and Media "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain News and Media
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) 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 News and Media Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw News and Media
Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. News and Media "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke News and Media
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) News and Media Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous News and Media
The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein 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 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 I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides News and Media "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder News and Media
