When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
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-- Mother Teresa Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
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The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn "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) Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Arts and Entertainment In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
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-- Prince Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Arts and Entertainment
"Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Arts and Entertainment When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Arts and Entertainment
Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) 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 Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Arts and Entertainment "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) "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 "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Arts and Entertainment
Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board 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 Arts and Entertainment
I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that Arts and Entertainment 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 Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Arts and Entertainment
I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Arts and Entertainment
Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Arts and Entertainment The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) This book fills a much-needed gap.
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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
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-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Arts and Entertainment Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
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-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Arts and Entertainment
"Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "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 Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Arts and Entertainment Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
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Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
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- J. Paul Getty Arts and Entertainment The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
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