If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Arts and Entertainment All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Arts and Entertainment
"It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Arts and Entertainment It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Arts and Entertainment
"Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Arts and Entertainment "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Arts and Entertainment
I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Arts and Entertainment When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Arts and Entertainment
In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Arts and Entertainment "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Arts and Entertainment
blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Arts and Entertainment It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins 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) 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 If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Arts and Entertainment "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Arts and Entertainment
Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Arts and Entertainment 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 Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Arts and Entertainment
"Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Arts and Entertainment A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Arts and Entertainment
Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Arts and Entertainment "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel 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 The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Arts and Entertainment
"The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Arts and Entertainment Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
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