If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Arts and Entertainment What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Arts and Entertainment
"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Arts and Entertainment Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Arts and Entertainment
I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) 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 The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Arts and Entertainment What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Arts and Entertainment
Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Arts and Entertainment Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Arts and Entertainment
Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Arts and Entertainment There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Arts and Entertainment
Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic 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, If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Arts and Entertainment We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Arts and Entertainment
Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Arts and Entertainment "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Arts and Entertainment
Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Arts and Entertainment blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Arts and Entertainment
What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley "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) We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Arts and Entertainment Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Arts and Entertainment
Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Arts and Entertainment Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Arts and Entertainment
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Arts and Entertainment
