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A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening News and Media "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius News and Media
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous News and Media Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) News and Media
"It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham 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 All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur News and Media Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr News and Media
The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) News and Media If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb News and Media
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. News and Media "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) News and Media
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H News and Media "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) News and Media
"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) 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 "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) News and Media I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur 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.
-- Crowf Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda News and Media
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton News and Media This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 News and Media
"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) News and Media Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) News and Media
May you never leave your marriage alive. I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) News and Media Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson News and Media
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous News and Media We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken News and Media
