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Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 Arts and Entertainment >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Arts and Entertainment
"Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Arts and Entertainment In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Arts and Entertainment
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 "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Arts and Entertainment 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. "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Arts and Entertainment
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Arts and Entertainment If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin 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
inex "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Arts and Entertainment
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Arts and Entertainment We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Arts and Entertainment
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall Arts and Entertainment There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Arts and Entertainment
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Arts and Entertainment It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Arts and Entertainment
Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner "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 "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Arts and Entertainment Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Arts and Entertainment
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) 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 Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Arts and Entertainment If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment
There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi "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 He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Arts and Entertainment These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Arts and Entertainment
Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Arts and Entertainment I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Arts and Entertainment
