In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige News and Media Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu News and Media
The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 News and Media If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken News and Media
Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous News and Media Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson News and Media
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) 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 To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. News and Media then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor 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 The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James News and Media
"If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland News and Media The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 News and Media
Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) 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 "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit News and Media I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) 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 News and Media
"One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens News and Media "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress News and Media
What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) News and Media "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry News and Media
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's News and Media It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) News and Media
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor News and Media He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen News and Media
There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous News and Media The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen News and Media
