All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens I have spread my dreams under your feet;
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-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Arts and Entertainment "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Arts and Entertainment
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
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-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
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I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Arts and Entertainment blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Arts and Entertainment
"Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Arts and Entertainment We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
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-- Anonymous "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
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-- Albert Einstein, attributed Arts and Entertainment
"When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Arts and Entertainment The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
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What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Arts and Entertainment "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
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-- Peter Oakley Arts and Entertainment
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Arts and Entertainment You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
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-- Olin Miller A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Arts and Entertainment
Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Arts and Entertainment Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
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-- Mary Buckley Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Arts and Entertainment
"I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Arts and Entertainment "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Arts and Entertainment
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Arts and Entertainment The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
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-- Anita Wise Arts and Entertainment
Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Arts and Entertainment "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
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