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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) News and Media Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner News and Media
If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) News and Media Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy News and Media
"A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. News and Media A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead News and Media
"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings News and Media Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. News and Media
When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy News and Media Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith News and Media
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana News and Media "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) 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 I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White News and Media
Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker News and Media Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb News and Media
"Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry News and Media 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch News and Media
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. News and Media "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni 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 All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. News and Media
"The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud News and Media The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson 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 Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige News and Media
If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) News and Media All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III News and Media
