Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken News and Media Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) News and Media
"Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) 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 We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw News and Media
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) News and Media Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron News and Media
A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer News and Media "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos News and Media
The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin News and Media Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper News and Media
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen News and Media True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) News and Media
Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) News and Media We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner News and Media
blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi News and Media Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder 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 It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais News and Media
"Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. News and Media "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 It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. News and Media
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein 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 Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" News and Media Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) News and Media
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, I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes News and Media The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers News and Media
