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Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Opera We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Opera
Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Opera Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Opera
Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Opera Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Opera
"Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Opera Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Opera
Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Opera A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Opera
If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Opera Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Opera
"Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Opera Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Opera
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Opera "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Opera
"We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li 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 The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Opera Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Opera
Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber 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 Opera "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Opera
Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Opera "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Opera
