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Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Arts and Entertainment There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Arts and Entertainment
It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
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-- Ed Abbey Arts and Entertainment Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? 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 I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Arts and Entertainment He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Arts and Entertainment
"Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Arts and Entertainment Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Arts and Entertainment
They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus "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 "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 We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Arts and Entertainment
"Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history "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) "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) Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Arts and Entertainment There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment
No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Arts and Entertainment "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Arts and Entertainment
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. Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Arts and Entertainment "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment
It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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.
-- Crowf The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Arts and Entertainment
The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. "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 "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Arts and Entertainment I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Arts and Entertainment
Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Arts and Entertainment "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Arts and Entertainment
