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A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine News and Media "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) News and Media
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) News and Media You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball News and Media
Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem News and Media In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald News and Media
Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) News and Media There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
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"In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais News and Media Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov 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 "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) News and Media
Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower News and Media Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell "... 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) Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung News and Media
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito What's new? Most of my wife. News and Media "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e News and Media
Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes News and Media You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz News and Media
Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau News and Media The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e News and Media
Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) News and Media Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) News and Media
Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke News and Media It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer News and Media
