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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein News and Media Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman "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 most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers News and Media "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long News and Media
"If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin News and Media "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton News and Media
Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec News and Media It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner News and Media
"To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside 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 News and Media Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards News and Media
>From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) News and Media Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton 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 Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins News and Media
Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) News and Media A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) News and Media
The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich 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 "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and News and Media "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. 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 Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) News and Media Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) News and Media
If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove "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 We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) News and Media
"In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) 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 Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" News and Media The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford News and Media
