Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov My other wife is beautiful. Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Arts and Entertainment Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Arts and Entertainment
"The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Arts and Entertainment All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Arts and Entertainment
There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Arts and Entertainment Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Arts and Entertainment
"Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress Arts and Entertainment This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Arts and Entertainment
Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Arts and Entertainment Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Arts and Entertainment
"I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Arts and Entertainment The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Arts and Entertainment
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Arts and Entertainment "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Arts and Entertainment
"Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Arts and Entertainment If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Arts and Entertainment
Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Arts and Entertainment
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Arts and Entertainment Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Arts and Entertainment
Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) "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 The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Arts and Entertainment It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Arts and Entertainment
