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 An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey "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 Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Arts and Entertainment
"Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Arts and Entertainment Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Arts and Entertainment
"Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Arts and Entertainment "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Arts and Entertainment
He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Arts and Entertainment Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Arts and Entertainment
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "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
Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. 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 The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Arts and Entertainment Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. May you never leave your marriage alive. Arts and Entertainment
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Arts and Entertainment We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment
Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Arts and Entertainment Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment
If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Arts and Entertainment When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Arts and Entertainment
"Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Arts and Entertainment "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Arts and Entertainment
I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Arts and Entertainment He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Arts and Entertainment
