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A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance News and Media "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford News and Media
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 The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) News and Media Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller News and Media
"A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's News and Media The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West News and Media
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha News and Media Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) News and Media
"Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. News and Media A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes News and Media
Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) News and Media "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland News and Media
Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov News and Media "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) News and Media
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell News and Media Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) News and Media
History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. News and Media Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler "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." Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III News and Media
"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis News and Media See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw News and Media
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf 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 It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man News and Media Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita News and Media
