Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton By Subject It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) By Subject
Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery By Subject "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) Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh By Subject
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. By Subject The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 By Subject
The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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) By Subject Man and wife make one fool. He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich By Subject
"To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) By Subject "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost By Subject
"Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. By Subject Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol 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 A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West By Subject
If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey By Subject Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf By Subject
"Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
By Subject "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t By Subject
Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) By Subject Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) By Subject
The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein By Subject Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche By Subject
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams By Subject If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) By Subject
