"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Arts and Entertainment
Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Arts and Entertainment The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Arts and Entertainment
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Arts and Entertainment Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Arts and Entertainment
"I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Arts and Entertainment "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Arts and Entertainment
"I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Arts and Entertainment Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Arts and Entertainment
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Arts and Entertainment "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) "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Arts and Entertainment
When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Arts and Entertainment In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Arts and Entertainment
Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Arts and Entertainment
"I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Arts and Entertainment Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Arts and Entertainment
He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Arts and Entertainment A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Arts and Entertainment
I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Arts and Entertainment "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Arts and Entertainment
