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Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe News and Media "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) 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, News and Media
Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) News and Media If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O News and Media
The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 News and Media Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein News and Media
Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz News and Media "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) News and Media
To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous News and Media If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh News and Media
"Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) 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 Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake News and Media We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince News and Media
Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) News and Media If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived News and Media
Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) News and Media "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) News and Media
If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing News and Media I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams News and Media
"Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) 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 The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine News and Media A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken News and Media
Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth News and Media Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain 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 News and Media
