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No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
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-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Arts and Entertainment
"To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Arts and Entertainment Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Arts and Entertainment
"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie 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 Arts and Entertainment "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Arts and Entertainment
"A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Arts and Entertainment 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 I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Arts and Entertainment
"If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Arts and Entertainment Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
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I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward 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 You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Arts and Entertainment A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Arts and Entertainment
To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Arts and Entertainment "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Arts and Entertainment
These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. 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 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 Arts and Entertainment "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Arts and Entertainment
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 The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Arts and Entertainment More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Arts and Entertainment
"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Arts and Entertainment If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Arts and Entertainment
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner 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 "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
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