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Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Arts and Entertainment Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Arts and Entertainment
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
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-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Arts and Entertainment "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Arts and Entertainment
"I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Arts and Entertainment "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Arts and Entertainment
If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Arts and Entertainment
I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Arts and Entertainment Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Arts and Entertainment
Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Arts and Entertainment Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Arts and Entertainment
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song 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. A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Arts and Entertainment Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment
The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Arts and Entertainment In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Arts and Entertainment
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Arts and Entertainment Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Arts and Entertainment
A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Arts and Entertainment I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Arts and Entertainment
History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Arts and Entertainment When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
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