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"I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Arts and Entertainment Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Arts and Entertainment
"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) "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 When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Arts and Entertainment The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Arts and Entertainment
My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Arts and Entertainment My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your 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
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Arts and Entertainment It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Arts and Entertainment
The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Arts and Entertainment In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Arts and Entertainment
He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Arts and Entertainment Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Arts and Entertainment
"Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Arts and Entertainment "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Arts and Entertainment
"Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Arts and Entertainment Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Arts and Entertainment
"The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Arts and Entertainment Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Arts and Entertainment
Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Arts and Entertainment I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Arts and Entertainment
All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Arts and Entertainment The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Arts and Entertainment
