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Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
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-- Arnold Bennett News and Media The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills News and Media
He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) News and Media Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen News and Media
Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) News and Media For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back News and Media
"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) Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) News and Media When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz News and Media
If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde News and Media "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous News and Media
Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson News and Media If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett News and Media
Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) News and Media Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 News and Media
I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast News and Media "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra News and Media
Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 News and Media "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan News and Media
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau News and Media There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) News and Media
By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld News and Media Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. News and Media
