"Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth "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 To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) News and Media "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) News and Media
Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson News and Media Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) News and Media
Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain News and Media If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer News and Media
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) News and Media Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat News and Media
We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman News and Media We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman News and Media
The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard 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 "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) News and Media "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West News and Media
"The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. News and Media 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 Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau News and Media
For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb "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) Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) News and Media "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers News and Media
The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha News and Media "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary News and Media
Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had News and Media "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken 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 News and Media
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) News and Media We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken 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 "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) News and Media
