Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Arts and Entertainment "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Arts and Entertainment
Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Arts and Entertainment To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment
"Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Arts and Entertainment A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Arts and Entertainment
Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards 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 And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Arts and Entertainment .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Arts and Entertainment
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l "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.) "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Arts and Entertainment Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Arts and Entertainment
"Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Arts and Entertainment
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen 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 blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Arts and Entertainment It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Arts and Entertainment
I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Arts and Entertainment
"Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) 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 Arts and Entertainment 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 The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Arts and Entertainment
Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Arts and Entertainment Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Arts and Entertainment
Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Arts and Entertainment Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara I hate work. That's why I got married.
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