I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld 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 Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Arts and Entertainment There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 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 "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Arts and Entertainment
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents "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) Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Arts and Entertainment A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Arts and Entertainment
The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Arts and Entertainment The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Arts and Entertainment
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Arts and Entertainment Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Arts and Entertainment
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment "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 "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' It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Arts and Entertainment
Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Arts and Entertainment The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Arts and Entertainment
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Arts and Entertainment By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Arts and Entertainment
"Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Arts and Entertainment Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Arts and Entertainment
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Arts and Entertainment Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Arts and Entertainment
If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Arts and Entertainment Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Arts and Entertainment
Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Arts and Entertainment Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
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