"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 "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) 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 Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Food and Beverages It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
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-- Seneca Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Food and Beverages
My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Food and Beverages Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Food and Beverages
Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
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-- Tom Lehrer "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Food and Beverages
"Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Food and Beverages There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Food and Beverages
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Food and Beverages "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Food and Beverages
"Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Food and Beverages I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Food and Beverages
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Food and Beverages An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Food and Beverages
This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker "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) If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Food and Beverages In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Food and Beverages
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Food and Beverages "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
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-- Nanette Newman, British actress Food and Beverages
"Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Food and Beverages If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Food and Beverages
The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Food and Beverages Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Food and Beverages
