You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Arts and Entertainment "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) 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 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
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Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Arts and Entertainment Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Arts and Entertainment
Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Arts and Entertainment "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Arts and Entertainment
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) 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 Arts and Entertainment There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Arts and Entertainment
I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Arts and Entertainment "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous "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
Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Arts and Entertainment If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Arts and Entertainment
You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Arts and Entertainment All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Arts and Entertainment
The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Arts and Entertainment My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Arts and Entertainment
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Arts and Entertainment 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
will You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Arts and Entertainment
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Arts and Entertainment This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Arts and Entertainment
"The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Arts and Entertainment "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Arts and Entertainment
