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"Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 News and Media If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. News and Media
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) "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) "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal News and Media Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) News and Media
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST News and Media "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry News and Media
Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the News and Media Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson News and Media
"Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) News and Media "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot News and Media
I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper News and Media Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda News and Media
"Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm News and Media He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. News and Media
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( News and Media A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead News and Media
The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash News and Media Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh News and Media
If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken 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 The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary News and Media 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 "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) News and Media
"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell News and Media "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde News and Media