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"To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Arts and Entertainment Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Arts and Entertainment
I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Arts and Entertainment I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Arts and Entertainment
Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Arts and Entertainment Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Arts and Entertainment
I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Arts and Entertainment Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Arts and Entertainment
As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Arts and Entertainment We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Arts and Entertainment
Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Arts and Entertainment The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Arts and Entertainment
She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Arts and Entertainment Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Arts and Entertainment
Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Arts and Entertainment I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Arts and Entertainment
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Arts and Entertainment It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Arts and Entertainment
No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Arts and Entertainment "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Arts and Entertainment My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Arts and Entertainment
