Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment 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 Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Arts and Entertainment
The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Arts and Entertainment Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor 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 "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Arts and Entertainment Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Arts and Entertainment
Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Arts and Entertainment Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Arts and Entertainment
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Arts and Entertainment "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) In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Arts and Entertainment There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Arts and Entertainment
To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert "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) "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Arts and Entertainment There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Arts and Entertainment
The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Arts and Entertainment The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Arts and Entertainment
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 There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Arts and Entertainment Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Arts and Entertainment
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Arts and Entertainment
Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Arts and Entertainment Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Arts and Entertainment
