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At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
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-- Woody Allen Arts and Entertainment Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
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-- Theodore Roosevelt Arts and Entertainment
There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
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-- Judith Viorst I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Arts and Entertainment
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Arts and Entertainment The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Arts and Entertainment
Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson I have read your book and much like it.
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closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
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"I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Arts and Entertainment "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi 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 Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Arts and Entertainment
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Arts and Entertainment "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Arts and Entertainment
Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Arts and Entertainment A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Arts and Entertainment
They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Arts and Entertainment Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Arts and Entertainment
Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Tear open packet, unfold and use.
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-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Arts and Entertainment
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Arts and Entertainment Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Arts and Entertainment
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Arts and Entertainment A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment
