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"No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Arts and Entertainment "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) 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 most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment
There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment
"Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Arts and Entertainment I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Arts and Entertainment
Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. 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 We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills 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,
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"The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Arts and Entertainment "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Arts and Entertainment
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Arts and Entertainment >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Arts and Entertainment
I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Arts and Entertainment Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Arts and Entertainment
The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Arts and Entertainment 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 I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Arts and Entertainment
We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou 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 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 Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Arts and Entertainment
Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Arts and Entertainment Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Arts and Entertainment
Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Arts and Entertainment "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Arts and Entertainment
