Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Arts and Entertainment If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Arts and Entertainment
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) 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 You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Arts and Entertainment Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Arts and Entertainment
"There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Arts and Entertainment Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Arts and Entertainment
The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone 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. "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Arts and Entertainment Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Arts and Entertainment
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln "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) Arts and Entertainment If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment
"What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln Arts and Entertainment The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Arts and Entertainment
Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Arts and Entertainment "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment
"You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams 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 "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment
When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Arts and Entertainment If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Arts and Entertainment
If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce 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 Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Arts and Entertainment "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Arts and Entertainment
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Arts and Entertainment I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
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