His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson 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 Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Arts and Entertainment When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Arts and Entertainment
"Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Arts and Entertainment The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Arts and Entertainment
Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story 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 Arts and Entertainment Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Arts and Entertainment
Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Arts and Entertainment "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Arts and Entertainment
Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Arts and Entertainment The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Arts and Entertainment
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Arts and Entertainment The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Arts and Entertainment
There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 "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 Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Arts and Entertainment Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Arts and Entertainment
The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Arts and Entertainment "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Arts and Entertainment
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Arts and Entertainment Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Arts and Entertainment
I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Arts and Entertainment
The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Arts and Entertainment Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Arts and Entertainment
