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Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous "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 then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor News and Media America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce News and Media
Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. News and Media True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry News and Media
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach News and Media Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld News and Media
He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln News and Media Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers News and Media
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little 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 Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell News and Media "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins News and Media
"When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) News and Media "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman News and Media
There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? "Think off-center." (George Carlin) News and Media Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. News and Media
Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills News and Media Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) News and Media
There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy News and Media It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) News and Media
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning News and Media Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic News and Media
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken News and Media Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester News and Media
