Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Arts and Entertainment There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
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-- Barbara Howar Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Arts and Entertainment
Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" "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) Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Arts and Entertainment The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Arts and Entertainment
If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Arts and Entertainment "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be 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 Arts and Entertainment
Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Arts and Entertainment "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Arts and Entertainment
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Arts and Entertainment Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Arts and Entertainment
The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Arts and Entertainment Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Arts and Entertainment
"Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland 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 The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Arts and Entertainment Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Arts and Entertainment
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "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) Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Arts and Entertainment God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Arts and Entertainment
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Arts and Entertainment Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Arts and Entertainment
"There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel "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 I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Arts and Entertainment "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Arts and Entertainment
Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Arts and Entertainment 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 Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Arts and Entertainment
