Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Arts and Entertainment "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Arts and Entertainment
"I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Arts and Entertainment Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Arts and Entertainment
Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Arts and Entertainment To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Arts and Entertainment The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Arts and Entertainment
Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Arts and Entertainment "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Arts and Entertainment
"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Arts and Entertainment "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Arts and Entertainment
Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Arts and Entertainment "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Arts and Entertainment
"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) It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle 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 However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Arts and Entertainment
"Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Arts and Entertainment Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Arts and Entertainment
Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Arts and Entertainment Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Arts and Entertainment
If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Arts and Entertainment "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Arts and Entertainment
