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When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht News and Media People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) News and Media
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) News and Media Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa News and Media
>From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy 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 News and Media Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth News and Media
"The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 News and Media The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn News and Media
"A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens News and Media "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch News and Media
He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do News and Media "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln News and Media
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz News and Media Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci News and Media
"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 "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 "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) "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 Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese News and Media May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show News and Media
Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. 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 News and Media If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) News and Media
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) News and Media Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov News and Media
He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein News and Media The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) News and Media
