The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf News and Media "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) News and Media
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead News and Media I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain News and Media
blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) 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 The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) News and Media
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell News and Media "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) News and Media
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton News and Media When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant News and Media
Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri News and Media "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy News and Media
I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies 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 "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe News and Media
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall News and Media "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW News and Media
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. The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf News and Media English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler News and Media
Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) News and Media Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry News and Media
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe News and Media Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe News and Media
