"One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
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-- Aldous Huxley Arts and Entertainment Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
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blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Arts and Entertainment 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 "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Arts and Entertainment
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Arts and Entertainment Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Arts and Entertainment
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry "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 When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at 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) Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Arts and Entertainment
It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Arts and Entertainment Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) "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
Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Arts and Entertainment Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Arts and Entertainment
Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "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) It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Arts and Entertainment "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Arts and Entertainment
Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Arts and Entertainment "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Arts and Entertainment
Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Arts and Entertainment "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Arts and Entertainment
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Arts and Entertainment We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen "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
"I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Arts and Entertainment That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Arts and Entertainment
