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You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood News and Media Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston 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 The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 News and Media
Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) News and Media Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th News and Media
All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx News and Media Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) News and Media
If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins News and Media Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams News and Media
"The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous 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 News and Media Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn News and Media
Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) News and Media Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. News and Media
When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor News and Media Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) News and Media
All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman 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 Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch News and Media
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy News and Media "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh News and Media
Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. News and Media And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh 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 Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung News and Media
Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o 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 Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) News and Media
