"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Arts and Entertainment Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment
The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Arts and Entertainment The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Arts and Entertainment
"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a 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 Arts and Entertainment "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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
The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Arts and Entertainment
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France 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 Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Arts and Entertainment "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Arts and Entertainment
You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Arts and Entertainment "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Arts and Entertainment
The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Arts and Entertainment A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment
When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Arts and Entertainment There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Arts and Entertainment
blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Arts and Entertainment I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Arts and Entertainment
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous 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 When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Arts and Entertainment The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Arts and Entertainment
"Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Arts and Entertainment
"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Arts and Entertainment I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Arts and Entertainment
