I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Someday is not a day of the week.
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-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Arts and Entertainment
A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Arts and Entertainment "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
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My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Arts and Entertainment "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Arts and Entertainment
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Arts and Entertainment Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Arts and Entertainment
"Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Arts and Entertainment Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Arts and Entertainment
"Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) 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 "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
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- Mark Twain Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Arts and Entertainment
At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Arts and Entertainment A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Arts and Entertainment
You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Arts and Entertainment When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Arts and Entertainment In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Arts and Entertainment
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Arts and Entertainment He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Arts and Entertainment
"Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Arts and Entertainment "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
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