"Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry What's On If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
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-- Ben Hecht Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle What's On
I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
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-- George Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw What's On It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon What's On
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland 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 Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie 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 Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner What's On True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
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"The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All What's On "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous What's On
"We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead What's On "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg What's On
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell What's On Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty What's On
Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer What's On He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo What's On
I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
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-- Russell Baker What's On He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand What's On
Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie What's On Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash What's On
Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita What's On America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber What's On
"Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will What's On After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic What's On
