I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Arts and Entertainment The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Arts and Entertainment
Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Arts and Entertainment It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Arts and Entertainment
If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem "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) LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Arts and Entertainment
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Arts and Entertainment While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Arts and Entertainment
The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) 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) She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Arts and Entertainment
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Arts and Entertainment "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Arts and Entertainment
"A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Arts and Entertainment "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) 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 A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Arts and Entertainment
"We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "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 Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Arts and Entertainment The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Arts and Entertainment
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Arts and Entertainment The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment
Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
"I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Arts and Entertainment Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer 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. The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Arts and Entertainment
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-- Dorothy Parker "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Arts and Entertainment "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Arts and Entertainment
