Evening Times - Scottish Media Group's evening paper, with local news and views.
"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 When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Newspapers Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner "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." Newspapers
Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Newspapers It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Newspapers
Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Newspapers "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Newspapers
I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton 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 Newspapers The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Newspapers
"Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Newspapers America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait 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? "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Newspapers
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Newspapers In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Newspapers
"Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Newspapers Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Newspapers
"One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Newspapers "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Newspapers
If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Newspapers "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' Newspapers
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Newspapers Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde 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. If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Newspapers
Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) "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) Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Newspapers Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg 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 A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Newspapers
