I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaďs Nin Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
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-- General Omar Bradley Arts and Entertainment
"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Arts and Entertainment If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Arts and Entertainment
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Arts and Entertainment If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Arts and Entertainment
He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain .. 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 It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Arts and Entertainment "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 I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
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"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries "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 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. The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Arts and Entertainment They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
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-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Arts and Entertainment We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
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"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 It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Arts and Entertainment A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
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"The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) 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" Arts and Entertainment Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Arts and Entertainment
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Arts and Entertainment
"I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Arts and Entertainment A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Arts and Entertainment
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Arts and Entertainment Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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