Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Arts and Entertainment Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason 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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-- Beverly Sills Arts and Entertainment
"Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Arts and Entertainment If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
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My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Arts and Entertainment "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment
The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Arts and Entertainment "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Arts and Entertainment
Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Arts and Entertainment There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Arts and Entertainment
We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Arts and Entertainment "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
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I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Arts and Entertainment To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Arts and Entertainment
I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Arts and Entertainment Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Arts and Entertainment
"How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment
Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Arts and Entertainment Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Arts and Entertainment
The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. 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.
-- Winston Churchill "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Arts and Entertainment
