A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
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-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Arts and Entertainment I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Arts and Entertainment
"No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Arts and Entertainment "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Marriage is a rest period between romances. What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Arts and Entertainment
When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Arts and Entertainment I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Arts and Entertainment
"You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Arts and Entertainment A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Arts and Entertainment
Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Arts and Entertainment If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Arts and Entertainment
They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Arts and Entertainment "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Arts and Entertainment
Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Arts and Entertainment During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Arts and Entertainment
"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Arts and Entertainment If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Arts and Entertainment
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Arts and Entertainment This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Arts and Entertainment
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Arts and Entertainment I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Arts and Entertainment
A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Arts and Entertainment We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
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