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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 To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Colleges and Universities If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Colleges and Universities
"All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Colleges and Universities Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Colleges and Universities
There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Colleges and Universities I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Colleges and Universities
When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Colleges and Universities "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Colleges and Universities
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Colleges and Universities The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Colleges and Universities
Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." "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) Colleges and Universities If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Colleges and Universities
Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Colleges and Universities "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Colleges and Universities
"Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing 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 "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Colleges and Universities "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "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 Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Colleges and Universities
Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Colleges and Universities If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic 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 Colleges and Universities
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Colleges and Universities "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" "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) Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Colleges and Universities
Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Colleges and Universities The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado Colleges and Universities
