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We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the News and Media "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm May you never leave your marriage alive. News and Media
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 Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings News and Media "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) News and Media
Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz News and Media They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson News and Media
"Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) News and Media "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) News and Media
"Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) 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 The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. News and Media Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed News and Media
I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone News and Media There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) News and Media
We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) News and Media "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe News and Media
Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday News and Media Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill News and Media
"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw News and Media "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld News and Media
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons News and Media Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) News and Media
If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler News and Media Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries News and Media
