In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Arts and Entertainment Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
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Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Arts and Entertainment A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Arts and Entertainment
Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Arts and Entertainment
I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Arts and Entertainment Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Arts and Entertainment
blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields What's new? Most of my wife. Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Arts and Entertainment Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Arts and Entertainment
Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Arts and Entertainment The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Arts and Entertainment
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Arts and Entertainment
It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Arts and Entertainment And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Arts and Entertainment
"The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Arts and Entertainment I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Arts and Entertainment
The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Arts and Entertainment Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire "Think off-center." (George Carlin) When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Arts and Entertainment
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Arts and Entertainment Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment
