A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Arts and Entertainment Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Arts and Entertainment
Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Arts and Entertainment "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Arts and Entertainment
MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Arts and Entertainment "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Arts and Entertainment
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt "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) Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Arts and Entertainment We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Arts and Entertainment
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Arts and Entertainment When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Arts and Entertainment
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Arts and Entertainment Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Arts and Entertainment
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 "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) If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Arts and Entertainment When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire 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
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Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Arts and Entertainment Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Arts and Entertainment
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 It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Arts and Entertainment All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Arts and Entertainment
"Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Arts and Entertainment
Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Arts and Entertainment We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Arts and Entertainment
