Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Arts and Entertainment Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Arts and Entertainment
Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Arts and Entertainment A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Arts and Entertainment
"Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Arts and Entertainment What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment
Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Arts and Entertainment "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Arts and Entertainment
Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Arts and Entertainment Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Arts and Entertainment
Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Arts and Entertainment "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Arts and Entertainment
"Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes 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) They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Arts and Entertainment
"I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Arts and Entertainment If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Arts and Entertainment
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Arts and Entertainment Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Arts and Entertainment
You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Arts and Entertainment Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Arts and Entertainment
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Arts and Entertainment The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Arts and Entertainment
