"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Arts and Entertainment Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
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-- Elizabeth Ashley Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
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-- Peter Arts and Entertainment Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
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-- E. W. Howe Arts and Entertainment
When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
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-- Susan Ertz Arts and Entertainment If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
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-- Helen Rowland Arts and Entertainment
It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Arts and Entertainment >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Arts and Entertainment
"Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Arts and Entertainment I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
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Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Arts and Entertainment We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Arts and Entertainment
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Arts and Entertainment Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
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-- Bertrand Russell Arts and Entertainment
God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Arts and Entertainment It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Arts and Entertainment
I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Arts and Entertainment "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
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-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Live out of your imagination, not your history.
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Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce 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 One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Arts and Entertainment
We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
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- Socrates "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Arts and Entertainment "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) Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
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