"Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Arts and Entertainment A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Arts and Entertainment
"Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Arts and Entertainment All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Arts and Entertainment
"I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) 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 "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Arts and Entertainment "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Arts and Entertainment
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 Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Arts and Entertainment Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Arts and Entertainment
"Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Arts and Entertainment "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Arts and Entertainment
Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Arts and Entertainment I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Arts and Entertainment
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Arts and Entertainment No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Arts and Entertainment
Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Arts and Entertainment Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment
"When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Arts and Entertainment "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Arts and Entertainment
The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Arts and Entertainment "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Arts and Entertainment
Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Arts and Entertainment "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Arts and Entertainment
