I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Arts and Entertainment When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Arts and Entertainment
We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Arts and Entertainment A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Arts and Entertainment
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Arts and Entertainment It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Arts and Entertainment
"No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison "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) "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Arts and Entertainment Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Arts and Entertainment
When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
"Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Arts and Entertainment "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Arts and Entertainment
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Arts and Entertainment Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes 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 "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Arts and Entertainment
And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Arts and Entertainment
Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Arts and Entertainment It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Arts and Entertainment
Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Arts and Entertainment "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Arts and Entertainment
It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Arts and Entertainment
Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Arts and Entertainment Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
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