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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Culture, Media and Sport "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Culture, Media and Sport
People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Culture, Media and Sport For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Culture, Media and Sport
Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Culture, Media and Sport Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Culture, Media and Sport
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that Culture, Media and Sport "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Culture, Media and Sport
Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Culture, Media and Sport Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Culture, Media and Sport
"What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Culture, Media and Sport Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Culture, Media and Sport
I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem "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) I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Culture, Media and Sport Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Culture, Media and Sport
Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Culture, Media and Sport War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Culture, Media and Sport
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Culture, Media and Sport Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Culture, Media and Sport
"It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Culture, Media and Sport Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Culture, Media and Sport
By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Culture, Media and Sport There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Culture, Media and Sport
