"I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
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-- Euripides Arts and Entertainment
Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
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-- Michel de Montaigne Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Arts and Entertainment I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
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-- Navaho saying Arts and Entertainment
When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
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-- Ralph N. Gerard Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
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If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Arts and Entertainment I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Arts and Entertainment
We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
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-- Fran Lebowitz Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
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- Frank Zappa And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
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-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Arts and Entertainment
It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
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-- Countess of Blessington Arts and Entertainment "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
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-- Margaret Thatcher Arts and Entertainment
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
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-- English Professor, Ohio University We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Arts and Entertainment The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
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-- James Thurber Arts and Entertainment
Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
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"Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Arts and Entertainment "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Arts and Entertainment
Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Arts and Entertainment Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
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-- Henry David Thoreau Arts and Entertainment
If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
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-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Arts and Entertainment After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Arts and Entertainment
When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Arts and Entertainment "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Arts and Entertainment
