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"I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Arts and Entertainment A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Arts and Entertainment
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Arts and Entertainment Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment
When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Arts and Entertainment Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Arts and Entertainment
It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Arts and Entertainment The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Arts and Entertainment
A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Arts and Entertainment Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Arts and Entertainment
When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Arts and Entertainment Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Arts and Entertainment
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Arts and Entertainment "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
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A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Arts and Entertainment A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Arts and Entertainment
"Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) "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) "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Arts and Entertainment Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Arts and Entertainment
Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Arts and Entertainment Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Arts and Entertainment
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Arts and Entertainment "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Arts and Entertainment
