The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Arts and Entertainment If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
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-- Mark Russell "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Arts and Entertainment
"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) The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Arts and Entertainment "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Arts and Entertainment
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens 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 When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Arts and Entertainment Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment
There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Arts and Entertainment I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black "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 Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Arts and Entertainment
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Arts and Entertainment I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Arts and Entertainment
You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Arts and Entertainment "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Arts and Entertainment
I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Arts and Entertainment In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Arts and Entertainment
"It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Arts and Entertainment 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 Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Arts and Entertainment
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Arts and Entertainment Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Arts and Entertainment
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) 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 There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Arts and Entertainment You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 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 "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Arts and Entertainment If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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) Arts and Entertainment
