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"Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun News and Media There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs News and Media
"For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence News and Media Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) News and Media
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein News and Media 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 To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden News and Media
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess 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 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 If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel News and Media "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler News and Media
"In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman News and Media 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 There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa News and Media
And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story News and Media Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) 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) 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 The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) News and Media I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous News and Media
Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei News and Media A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz News and Media
"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) Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat News and Media If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis 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 News and Media
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison News and Media Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde News and Media
Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton News and Media The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w News and Media
