I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland 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 "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Arts and Entertainment Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Arts and Entertainment
Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous 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 Arts and Entertainment Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Arts and Entertainment
The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Arts and Entertainment The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken 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) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Arts and Entertainment
"I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Arts and Entertainment "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Arts and Entertainment
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Arts and Entertainment
Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning 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 depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Arts and Entertainment Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
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"In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Arts and Entertainment I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Arts and Entertainment
Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Arts and Entertainment It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Arts and Entertainment
If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Arts and Entertainment Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Arts and Entertainment
