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I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf News and Media Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire News and Media
Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb News and Media "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy News and Media
"If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. News and Media "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin News and Media
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry News and Media All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi News and Media
Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer 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 News and Media The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro News and Media
"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) 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 "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards News and Media I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West News and Media
Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) 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 Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln News and Media
Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux News and Media Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) News and Media
The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm News and Media Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln News and Media
Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) News and Media You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop News and Media
"We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning News and Media A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West News and Media
