"Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Arts and Entertainment
"Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Arts and Entertainment A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Arts and Entertainment
If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Arts and Entertainment Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Arts and Entertainment
There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Arts and Entertainment Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Arts and Entertainment
I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Arts and Entertainment Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment
Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Arts and Entertainment Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Arts and Entertainment
A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian 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 "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Arts and Entertainment The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment
"Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Arts and Entertainment All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Arts and Entertainment
Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi 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 Arts and Entertainment If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Arts and Entertainment
Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Arts and Entertainment I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Arts and Entertainment
They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Arts and Entertainment Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Arts and Entertainment
