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"Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) "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) The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Arts and Entertainment Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Arts and Entertainment
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 Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Arts and Entertainment Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Arts and Entertainment
In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Arts and Entertainment Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Arts and Entertainment
"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Arts and Entertainment 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 What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Arts and Entertainment
As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Arts and Entertainment "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Arts and Entertainment
I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may Arts and Entertainment Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Arts and Entertainment
Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Arts and Entertainment You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Arts and Entertainment
The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall Arts and Entertainment "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Arts and Entertainment
"Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Arts and Entertainment Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Arts and Entertainment
When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Arts and Entertainment My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Arts and Entertainment
If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan 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 Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Arts and Entertainment "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Arts and Entertainment
