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The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Arts and Entertainment Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Arts and Entertainment
You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Arts and Entertainment Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Arts and Entertainment
The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Arts and Entertainment If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Arts and Entertainment
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Arts and Entertainment The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance "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) "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Arts and Entertainment
"Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Arts and Entertainment
"God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Arts and Entertainment The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Arts and Entertainment
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe May you never leave your marriage alive. Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Arts and Entertainment It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Arts and Entertainment
There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Arts and Entertainment The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Arts and Entertainment
"Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Arts and Entertainment It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Arts and Entertainment
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Arts and Entertainment "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment
The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Arts and Entertainment Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Arts and Entertainment
