Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting 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 does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain News and Media Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues News and Media
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham News and Media Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) News and Media
"I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) News and Media Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat 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 News and Media
One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) 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 News and Media "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton News and Media
Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President News and Media Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) News and Media
The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) 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 See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster News and Media When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V News and Media
"You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin News and Media "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde News and Media
Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin News and Media Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" News and Media
Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) News and Media A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history News and Media
Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning News and Media "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t "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) Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii News and Media
"I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber News and Media A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous News and Media
