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 "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Arts and Entertainment Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
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-- G. K. Chesterton I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Arts and Entertainment
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Arts and Entertainment Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment
Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard 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. How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Arts and Entertainment Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. 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'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Arts and Entertainment I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Arts and Entertainment
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) 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 Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Arts and Entertainment Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Arts and Entertainment
Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Arts and Entertainment "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Arts and Entertainment
Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Arts and Entertainment The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Arts and Entertainment
I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Arts and Entertainment There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Arts and Entertainment
We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Arts and Entertainment And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln 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 This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Arts and Entertainment
There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Arts and Entertainment Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good 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 "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Arts and Entertainment
"You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) 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 Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Arts and Entertainment More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
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