Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
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- James Stephens He who laughs, lasts.
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Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
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-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "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 Arts and Entertainment "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 "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Arts and Entertainment
"Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Arts and Entertainment For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
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-- Lyster But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
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"The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye 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 Arts and Entertainment Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Arts and Entertainment
"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
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-- Barbara Howar "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Arts and Entertainment Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
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"You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Arts and Entertainment A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment
If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin 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 Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Arts and Entertainment
A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Arts and Entertainment We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams 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 Nietzsche What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr 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 "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Arts and Entertainment The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Arts and Entertainment
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
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soiled or torn? Arts and Entertainment Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
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-- Thornton Wilder Arts and Entertainment
"Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Arts and Entertainment Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Arts and Entertainment
