Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Motoring "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Motoring
When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Motoring In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Motoring
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 We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Motoring There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Motoring
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Motoring Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Motoring
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Motoring I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Motoring
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) "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) Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Motoring Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Motoring
Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) 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 Motoring "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Motoring
If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Motoring "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Motoring
"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Motoring Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Motoring
Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Motoring I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Motoring
Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Motoring Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Motoring
