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When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe News and Media Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw News and Media
"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein News and Media Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells News and Media
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf News and Media I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine News and Media
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer News and Media "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni News and Media
The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche News and Media Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that News and Media
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) News and Media Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain News and Media
"Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) 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) Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov News and Media Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre News and Media
I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain News and Media "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S News and Media
Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) News and Media People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries 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
"Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland News and Media "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) News and Media
I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken News and Media "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) News and Media
