Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
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-- Flannery O'Connor Arts and Entertainment Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Arts and Entertainment
Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Arts and Entertainment I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Arts and Entertainment
The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle May you never leave your marriage alive. Arts and Entertainment "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Arts and Entertainment
"Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Arts and Entertainment "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Arts and Entertainment
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Arts and Entertainment Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Arts and Entertainment
I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Arts and Entertainment "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment
"If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Arts and Entertainment "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
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There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Arts and Entertainment "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Arts and Entertainment
Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler 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 Arts and Entertainment "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Arts and Entertainment
"The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Arts and Entertainment
A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Arts and Entertainment "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
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