"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
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-- Molly Ivins I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Arts and Entertainment
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married 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 . . .
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-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Arts and Entertainment Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
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History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill 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 The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Arts and Entertainment Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Arts and Entertainment
I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii "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) Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Arts and Entertainment There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex 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 Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Arts and Entertainment
The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Arts and Entertainment "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Arts and Entertainment
We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Arts and Entertainment There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Arts and Entertainment
A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Arts and Entertainment Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. 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 Arts and Entertainment
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Arts and Entertainment Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Arts and Entertainment
He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Arts and Entertainment Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
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A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Arts and Entertainment There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment
I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Arts and Entertainment Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) 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
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