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The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Television Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Television
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Television Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "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) Television
Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Television They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal "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) "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Television
We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin 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 Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Television "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Television
Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan 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 "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Television If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Television
"If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Television The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Television
I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Television It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Television
"Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Television Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Television
"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) You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Television I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Television
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
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 The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. "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) Television Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Television
Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Television Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra 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 I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Television
