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Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes. - Henry David Thoreau 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 Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said. -- George Santayana Golf is a good walk spoiled. -- Mark Twain A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house. -- Moliere News and Media There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot. -- Steven Wright "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one more letter she'd have to remember. -- Shecky Greene News and Media Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree. -- Oscar Wilde The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn. -- Cicero Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. -- Oscar Wilde News and Media I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. - Sir Winston Churchill Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes. -- Lewis Grizzard "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth News and Media blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year. -- P. J. O'Rourke We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. - Niels Bohr Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words. -- Fr. Jerome Cummings News and Media 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 MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. -- Albert Einstein News and Media Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action. - Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married. -- George Bernard Shaw Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them. -- Ralph N. Gerard "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') News and Media "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) News and Media The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. -- Winston Churchill Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. -- Wernher Von Braun A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it. -- Anonymous When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask is a chance." -- Anon. An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness. -- Margaret Atwood News and Media Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult. -- Charlotte Whitton Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe. -- Jackie Mason I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown. -- Woody Allen News and Media There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money. -- Benjamin Franklin You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there. -- Yogi Berra "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those that break down, and those that get lost. -- Russell Baker A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age. -- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II News and Media Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure. -- Oliver Herford "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the disg News and Media It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed. They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position. -- John Hogan, Commonwealth The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe. -- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost a fortune The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing. -- Sigmund Freud Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital. -- Aaron Levenstein News and Media Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin. -- Grace Hansen "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for themselves. -- F. Emerson Andrews News and Media The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact. -- Thomas Henry Huxley This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks, in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on the fl All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. - Arthur Schopenhauer Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. -- Aldous Huxley "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) News and Media It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed. They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position. -- John Hogan, Commonwealth If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) News and Media When ideas fail, words come in very handy. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and stupid from He would make a lovely corpse. - Charles Dickens "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action. - Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming News and Media Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow. -- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel. -- Samuel Johnson News and Media I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means. - Clarence Darrow, Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a thing to be acheived. -- William Jennings Bryant Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate. -- Dave Barry "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) To keep your marriage brimming With love in the marriage cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it, Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash News and Media "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough. -- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper News and Media A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. - Paul Erdos When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap. -- Dolly Parton Every act of creation is first an act of destruction. -- Pablo Picasso Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. -- E. B. White News and Media Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. -- Hector Louis Berlioz Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. -- George Bernard Shaw A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity. -- Albert Einstein News and Media
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