"A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Arts and Entertainment When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
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-- Oscar Wilde "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Arts and Entertainment
"Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Arts and Entertainment It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Arts and Entertainment
Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Arts and Entertainment A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment
Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe "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 "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Arts and Entertainment
Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Arts and Entertainment There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Arts and Entertainment
Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Arts and Entertainment
Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Arts and Entertainment "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Arts and Entertainment
Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Arts and Entertainment There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac 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 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Arts and Entertainment [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Arts and Entertainment
What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Arts and Entertainment The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Arts and Entertainment
"The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz 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 "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Arts and Entertainment History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Arts and Entertainment
