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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 Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons News and Media A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch News and Media
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) News and Media "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln News and Media
And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) News and Media There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. News and Media
"If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' News and Media The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait News and Media
You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France 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 It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr News and Media I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp News and Media
CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee News and Media What's new? Most of my wife. Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed News and Media
A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson 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 In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock News and Media A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman News and Media
They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx News and Media Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous News and Media
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje News and Media Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) News and Media
"Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet News and Media Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters News and Media
You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton 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 News and Media People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln News and Media
