Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 "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) I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Arts and Entertainment Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Arts and Entertainment
"When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Arts and Entertainment When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment
Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Arts and Entertainment "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Arts and Entertainment
Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Arts and Entertainment The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
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It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain 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 Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Arts and Entertainment Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Arts and Entertainment
"The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Spinster: A bachelor's wife. I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Arts and Entertainment "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Arts and Entertainment
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper 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 Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker 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 Arts and Entertainment
Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Arts and Entertainment "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Arts and Entertainment
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Arts and Entertainment The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! 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
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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 In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Arts and Entertainment I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Arts and Entertainment
The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Arts and Entertainment Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
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