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Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Arts and Entertainment To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Arts and Entertainment
"I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Arts and Entertainment In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Arts and Entertainment
If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Arts and Entertainment A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Arts and Entertainment
"Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Arts and Entertainment If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Arts and Entertainment
Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Arts and Entertainment Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Arts and Entertainment
"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Arts and Entertainment My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Spinster: A bachelor's wife. It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Arts and Entertainment
Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Arts and Entertainment The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Arts and Entertainment
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Arts and Entertainment
Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Arts and Entertainment Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Arts and Entertainment
I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 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 Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Arts and Entertainment All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Arts and Entertainment
"Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) 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 The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Arts and Entertainment