Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Arts and Entertainment Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Arts and Entertainment
I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
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-- Tom Lehrer "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Arts and Entertainment Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
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We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Arts and Entertainment Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Arts and Entertainment
Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Arts and Entertainment Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Arts and Entertainment
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Arts and Entertainment Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Arts and Entertainment
There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Arts and Entertainment
This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Arts and Entertainment 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) A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Arts and Entertainment
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Arts and Entertainment A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Arts and Entertainment
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Arts and Entertainment "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment
There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy 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 Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Arts and Entertainment
Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Arts and Entertainment 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 "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
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