We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Arts and Entertainment I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words 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 In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Arts and Entertainment
If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Arts and Entertainment "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Arts and Entertainment
"How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Arts and Entertainment This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Arts and Entertainment
The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado 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" A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Arts and Entertainment Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Arts and Entertainment
then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Arts and Entertainment A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Arts and Entertainment
If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Arts and Entertainment Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Arts and Entertainment
"May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Arts and Entertainment The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Arts and Entertainment
Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Arts and Entertainment May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Arts and Entertainment
Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Arts and Entertainment Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Arts and Entertainment
The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Arts and Entertainment 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, "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Arts and Entertainment
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Arts and Entertainment "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Arts and Entertainment
