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"I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset News and Media If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) News and Media
Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) News and Media "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor News and Media
Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) News and Media 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 Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil News and Media
If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) News and Media Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain News and Media
"Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan News and Media And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius News and Media
A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 News and Media Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) News and Media
Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary News and Media After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words News and Media
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa News and Media Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars News and Media
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen News and Media A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks 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
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"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) News and Media If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton News and Media
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop News and Media "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein News and Media
