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Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) 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 To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi News and Media "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw News and Media
The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw "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) Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi News and Media "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. News and Media
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb News and Media Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre 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
"Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer News and Media When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) News and Media
The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan News and Media The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith News and Media
Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce News and Media "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert News and Media
The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 News and Media "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) "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. News and Media
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) News and Media Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken News and Media
The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman News and Media If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) News and Media
I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw News and Media Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle News and Media
The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost News and Media My other wife is beautiful. The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia News and Media
