Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 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 Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Arts and Entertainment The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Arts and Entertainment
The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Arts and Entertainment Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton "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 Arts and Entertainment
It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Arts and Entertainment The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Arts and Entertainment
Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Arts and Entertainment "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Arts and Entertainment
Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Arts and Entertainment Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Arts and Entertainment
"When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Arts and Entertainment If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge 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) A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Arts and Entertainment Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) 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) Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Arts and Entertainment I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Arts and Entertainment
I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Arts and Entertainment Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Arts and Entertainment
The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Arts and Entertainment "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Arts and Entertainment
Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Arts and Entertainment Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
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