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"Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Arts and Entertainment When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl 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 "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Arts and Entertainment
"The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Arts and Entertainment Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Arts and Entertainment
Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Arts and Entertainment Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Arts and Entertainment
A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Arts and Entertainment Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Arts and Entertainment
Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Arts and Entertainment Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Arts and Entertainment
"Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Arts and Entertainment There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Arts and Entertainment
When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Arts and Entertainment "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Arts and Entertainment
"One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Arts and Entertainment The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Arts and Entertainment
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Arts and Entertainment If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber 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 "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Arts and Entertainment
I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Arts and Entertainment An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Arts and Entertainment
I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Arts and Entertainment "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Arts and Entertainment
