Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Arts and Entertainment If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Arts and Entertainment
I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis 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 Arts and Entertainment The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Arts and Entertainment
The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Arts and Entertainment Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln 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 philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Arts and Entertainment I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Arts and Entertainment
Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Arts and Entertainment Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Arts and Entertainment
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Arts and Entertainment I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Arts and Entertainment
Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Arts and Entertainment "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Arts and Entertainment
The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Arts and Entertainment Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Arts and Entertainment
LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Arts and Entertainment "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) 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 then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Arts and Entertainment
"It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Arts and Entertainment
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) A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Arts and Entertainment Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Arts and Entertainment
