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"There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde News and Media Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one News and Media
Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) News and Media "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw News and Media
The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro News and Media Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner News and Media
"Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 News and Media To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France 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 Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. News and Media
Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley News and Media A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) News and Media
There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) News and Media We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud News and Media
Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus 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 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 "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon News and Media He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous News and Media
When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard News and Media "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone News and Media
The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst News and Media "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) Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais News and Media
"Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken 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 Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats News and Media Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k News and Media
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs News and Media I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu News and Media
