Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Arts and Entertainment We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Arts and Entertainment
Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Arts and Entertainment
My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Arts and Entertainment I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Arts and Entertainment
You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Arts and Entertainment
A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Arts and Entertainment And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W 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
"Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley 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 The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Arts and Entertainment "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Arts and Entertainment
"Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Arts and Entertainment "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Arts and Entertainment
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Arts and Entertainment He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Arts and Entertainment
We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Arts and Entertainment Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Arts and Entertainment
I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Arts and Entertainment I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Arts and Entertainment
It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Arts and Entertainment That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt 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
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