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I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) News and Media In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler "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) There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi News and Media
'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler News and Media They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi News and Media
Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland 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 Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings News and Media Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton News and Media
"When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) News and Media All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers News and Media
"Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz News and Media "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co News and Media
Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde News and Media I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. News and Media
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi News and Media Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall "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 Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert News and Media
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward May you never leave your marriage alive. Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President News and Media To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara News and Media
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana News and Media Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer News and Media
The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain News and Media A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III News and Media
"The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, News and Media If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) News and Media
