As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Arts and Entertainment I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Arts and Entertainment
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 A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Arts and Entertainment If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
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The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous "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) Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Arts and Entertainment "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
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The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Arts and Entertainment I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Arts and Entertainment
Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Arts and Entertainment What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Arts and Entertainment
Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Arts and Entertainment "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
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-- George Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Arts and Entertainment
The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Arts and Entertainment "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
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-- Joan Crawford 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
Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo 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 In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law 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 At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Arts and Entertainment
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Arts and Entertainment
Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Arts and Entertainment It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin "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 To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man What's new? Most of my wife. Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Arts and Entertainment "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
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