Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Arts and Entertainment Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Arts and Entertainment
We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Arts and Entertainment A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Arts and Entertainment
"Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Arts and Entertainment I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) 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 Arts and Entertainment
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay 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) "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Arts and Entertainment
If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Arts and Entertainment A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Arts and Entertainment
Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will 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 "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Arts and Entertainment
I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Arts and Entertainment You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Arts and Entertainment
"See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Arts and Entertainment The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Arts and Entertainment
It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Arts and Entertainment "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Arts and Entertainment
Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Arts and Entertainment "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment
I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Arts and Entertainment If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment
