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"As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull News and Media No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein News and Media
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) News and Media Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. News and Media
There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer 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 Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett News and Media "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) News and Media
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman News and Media Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) News and Media
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden News and Media I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton News and Media
He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. News and Media Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan News and Media
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale News and Media Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill "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) News and Media
Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses News and Media Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) News and Media
By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de News and Media Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( News and Media
Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen News and Media "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf News and Media
If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez News and Media "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost News and Media
