"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment
It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni 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 There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Arts and Entertainment
Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Arts and Entertainment This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
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I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Arts and Entertainment
They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Arts and Entertainment Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Arts and Entertainment
The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Arts and Entertainment Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James 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 This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker 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 In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Arts and Entertainment It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Arts and Entertainment
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Arts and Entertainment Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Arts and Entertainment
"Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Arts and Entertainment Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Arts and Entertainment
"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Arts and Entertainment 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 The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Arts and Entertainment
Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Arts and Entertainment The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Arts and Entertainment
