The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
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-- Victor Hugo Arts and Entertainment The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Arts and Entertainment
But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Arts and Entertainment The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Arts and Entertainment
I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Arts and Entertainment
"He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Arts and Entertainment "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Arts and Entertainment
Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Arts and Entertainment A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Arts and Entertainment
When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Arts and Entertainment Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Arts and Entertainment
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Arts and Entertainment 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 Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Arts and Entertainment
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Arts and Entertainment "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Arts and Entertainment
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Arts and Entertainment I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Arts and Entertainment
blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Arts and Entertainment "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Arts and Entertainment
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Arts and Entertainment "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
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