Wisdom is hindsight disguised as foresight. Old Welsh Proverb.

"The lyf so short, the craft so long to learn."  Chaucer

"He was the only witness to the assassination of Gaitán, and he recounted it step by step with the artfulness of a born narrator and a chronic journalist." Gabriel García Márquez

"The novel and journalism are children of the same mother." Gabriel García Márquez

"Dust in the air made wonders of the sunset." Paul Horgan in Lamy of Santa Fe

“Recollection is the manipulation of memory.” Herbie Cohen in Sandy Koufax: A Lefty’s Legacy

"Hard work is good for the soul. It keeps you from feeling sorry for yourself because you don't have time."--Minnie Sinclair (Dave Thomas' grandmother)

Sometimes that which is apparent isn't always obvious.

 An agnostic is an atheist who has hedged his bet.

The past is residue. --JSN

"Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform." -- Susan B. Anthony"A university must be a different place if it is to make a difference." Roy C. Buck, Professor Emeritus of Sociology

"Kindness in a bucket is returned in a barrel" --Chinese Proverb

"The good that you do for someone, that good will come back to you. And the evil that you do will return." Deacon Curry in _Praying for Sheetrock_

``I only drink when somebody buys.'' -- Forrest Cress (1892-1996)

"How lovely are the wiles of Words." -- Emily Dickinson

"What can't be cured must be endured." _The Shipping News_

"My life, when it is written, will read better than it lived." Henry II, The Lion in Winter

"In a situation which is devoid of morality, try to be a man and do something worthwhile" -- Hillel

"The internet: I wouldn't stay home without it."

"A man becomes the song he sings." Irish proverb

"Here I stand. I cannot do otherwise." Martin Luther

"Good prose is like a window pane." George Orwell

"The true poem is the daily paper." --Walt Whitman (1852)

"Only the stirring spoon knows the troubles of the pot." Grandma Polizzi

I scan therefore I am.

 "A skeptic is a cynic who has mellowed." --An anonymous Welshman

"We spend our years as a tale that is told." Psalms 90.9

"If you're too sweet and nice, they just leave tire tracks on your back."--Gert Boyle

"The card catalogue, to my mind, is the supreme advantage of being an American; if there are others, they are secondary." Barbara W. Tuchman (1972)

Many a false step is made standing still. --Fortune Cookie

Foreign places yield more to one who is himself worth meeting. Beowulf

The road goes both ways. -- Miss Emily in Icy Sparks

I don't wish ill on anyone. After all, if you had to deal with me, you've suffered enough. -- R. Thomas Berner

If you're going to be like everyone else, what's the point? -- Hose House wisdom

The World Campus----a flexible learning environment at your fingertips

"If you're good at it, you leave no fingerprints." Lorne Michaels

"Better to be a has-been than a never-been." Tiny Tim

...if you aren't in a newsroom that's trying to change, you should be worried. The readers in the world are leaving you behind.

--Walker Lundy

"...the older you get, the more you find life interesting apart from your own problems."

--Katrin Cartlidge (1961-2002)

 

"My philosophy is that I want to make a living, not a killing."

--Bob Wallace, software pioneer