"When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Arts and Entertainment The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud "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) Arts and Entertainment
I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Arts and Entertainment "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) "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.) Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment
Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
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-- Mark Twain "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Arts and Entertainment "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Arts and Entertainment
"The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Arts and Entertainment I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Arts and Entertainment
If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Arts and Entertainment "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
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-- Abraham Lincoln Arts and Entertainment
If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Arts and Entertainment Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Arts and Entertainment
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Arts and Entertainment "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) 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 We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
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-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Arts and Entertainment
"A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Arts and Entertainment "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Arts and Entertainment
"This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Arts and Entertainment If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Arts and Entertainment
Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Arts and Entertainment Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
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"The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Arts and Entertainment "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
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