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Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard News and Media I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus News and Media
Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) News and Media If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart News and Media
The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) News and Media Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat News and Media
Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor "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 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 "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) News and Media Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx News and Media
The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn "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." 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 "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) News and Media 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 A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus News and Media
Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso News and Media "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The News and Media
If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright News and Media Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland News and Media
You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben News and Media "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw News and Media
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) News and Media "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde News and Media
You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II News and Media I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) News and Media
Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous News and Media More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley News and Media
