"An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Arts and Entertainment "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
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-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment
"Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w "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 Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Arts and Entertainment The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment
When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Arts and Entertainment We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Arts and Entertainment
"One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Arts and Entertainment We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Arts and Entertainment
Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Arts and Entertainment In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Arts and Entertainment
The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Arts and Entertainment Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Arts and Entertainment
I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Arts and Entertainment Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Arts and Entertainment
Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Arts and Entertainment Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Arts and Entertainment
"A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Arts and Entertainment In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott 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 Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Arts and Entertainment
Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Arts and Entertainment Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. 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 The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Arts and Entertainment
"I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Arts and Entertainment "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
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