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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde News and Media All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates News and Media
"Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous News and Media It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland News and Media
blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde 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) A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken 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 This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple News and Media
Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins News and Media 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 My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson News and Media
"Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) News and Media To keep your marriage brimming
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Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais News and Media
"I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb News and Media A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) News and Media
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken 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 "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." News and Media Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 News and Media
Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric News and Media In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck News and Media
"Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) "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) Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) News and Media The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins News and Media
Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) "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 "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama News and Media
It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli News and Media "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde News and Media
