Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Arts and Entertainment The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Arts and Entertainment "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Arts and Entertainment
Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment
"When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Arts and Entertainment I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Arts and Entertainment
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 Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Arts and Entertainment Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Arts and Entertainment
When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Arts and Entertainment
Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Arts and Entertainment We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz 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 Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder 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 You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Arts and Entertainment There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Arts and Entertainment
One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Arts and Entertainment Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Arts and Entertainment
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Arts and Entertainment In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) 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 difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment
