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The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Radio The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Radio
When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Radio A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Radio
The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) What's new? Most of my wife. Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson "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) Radio Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Radio
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Radio As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Radio
The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Radio With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Radio
Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Radio "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Radio
"Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Radio True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Radio
If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Radio "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Radio
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Radio I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Radio
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Radio Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
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"When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) 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 Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Radio Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Radio
