Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth News and Media A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford 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 News and Media
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) News and Media The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 News and Media
For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford 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 "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley News and Media UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou News and Media
People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel News and Media Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke News and Media
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. News and Media Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. News and Media
This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber News and Media Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston News and Media
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 I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I News and Media "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay News and Media
Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer News and Media I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud News and Media
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy News and Media Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith News and Media
"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) The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom News and Media "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. News and Media
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. News and Media They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi "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 If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover News and Media
