Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Arts and Entertainment Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Arts and Entertainment
your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Arts and Entertainment Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "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
Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Arts and Entertainment By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Arts and Entertainment
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Arts and Entertainment There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment
If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment
Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m Arts and Entertainment This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Arts and Entertainment
"There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Arts and Entertainment 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 "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Arts and Entertainment
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Arts and Entertainment We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Arts and Entertainment
Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Arts and Entertainment I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Arts and Entertainment
"I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) 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 Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Arts and Entertainment If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Arts and Entertainment
"Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Arts and Entertainment To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Arts and Entertainment
