No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu News and Media Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude News and Media
Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) News and Media Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) News and Media
Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius News and Media Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld News and Media
And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) News and Media It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol News and Media My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
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-- Lenny Bruce A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud News and Media
To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) News and Media Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning News and Media
Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting News and Media Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington News and Media
"Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov 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 There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I News and Media In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth News and Media
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower News and Media The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn News and Media
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr "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 "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms News and Media Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 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
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. News and Media Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe News and Media
