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"The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa News and Media "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little 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 "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley News and Media "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp News and Media
If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen News and Media Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t News and Media
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 A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) News and Media "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) News and Media
I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) News and Media The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling News and Media
If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin News and Media Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce News and Media
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, 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 News and Media Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do News and Media
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst News and Media The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky News and Media
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain News and Media Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur News and Media
"In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein News and Media
A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb "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.) We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud News and Media May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent News and Media
