If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Arts and Entertainment We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Arts and Entertainment
"Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Arts and Entertainment I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Arts and Entertainment
"Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Arts and Entertainment As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell "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
"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Arts and Entertainment He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein 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
The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Arts and Entertainment Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Arts and Entertainment
Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday 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 We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry Arts and Entertainment Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Arts and Entertainment
You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl 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 "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Arts and Entertainment "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill 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 is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Arts and Entertainment Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Arts and Entertainment
Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Arts and Entertainment Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana "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 you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Arts and Entertainment
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Arts and Entertainment You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Arts and Entertainment
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Arts and Entertainment "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Arts and Entertainment
