"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
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-- Woody Allen Arts and Entertainment I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Arts and Entertainment
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Arts and Entertainment Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
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-- Isadora Duncan Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
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-- Winston Churchill Arts and Entertainment
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
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-- Antonio Machado Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
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-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
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-- Rainer Maria Rilke Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
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-- John Barrymore - last words Arts and Entertainment
The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
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-- Nicholas Negroponte Arts and Entertainment The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton 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 Arts and Entertainment
Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Arts and Entertainment "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
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Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Arts and Entertainment Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Arts and Entertainment Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Arts and Entertainment
We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Arts and Entertainment If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment
Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Arts and Entertainment blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
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-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Arts and Entertainment
"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. 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 If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Arts and Entertainment "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
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Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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 Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
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