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In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa News and Media Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye News and Media
"I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford News and Media The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley News and Media
"A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) News and Media It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life News and Media
"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) Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf News and Media Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T News and Media
True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason News and Media Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) News and Media
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) News and Media Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu News and Media
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw News and Media The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe News and Media
"I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "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) He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher News and Media Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky News and Media
Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) News and Media "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud News and Media
"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry News and Media 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's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) News and Media
Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying 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 Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous News and Media Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) News and Media
