Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha "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 Arts and Entertainment The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
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The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
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-- George Santayana "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
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- Sir Winston Churchill Arts and Entertainment The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
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-- George Bernard Shaw "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment
Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Arts and Entertainment "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment
Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
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-- Anonymous My other wife is beautiful. Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Arts and Entertainment "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
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-- Groucho Marx Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
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One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
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-- Henry Ford "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Arts and Entertainment Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Arts and Entertainment
"I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Arts and Entertainment The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
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"Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Arts and Entertainment The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Arts and Entertainment
"I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
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-- Charlotte Whitton The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
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-- Antonio Machado Arts and Entertainment
This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper 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 Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Arts and Entertainment Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Arts and Entertainment
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criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Arts and Entertainment "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Arts and Entertainment
"The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Arts and Entertainment You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
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