Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Arts and Entertainment A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Arts and Entertainment
"Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Arts and Entertainment Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Arts and Entertainment
"People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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) 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 What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Arts and Entertainment 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 Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Arts and Entertainment
A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Arts and Entertainment
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Arts and Entertainment I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Arts and Entertainment
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 "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Arts and Entertainment "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Arts and Entertainment
It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Arts and Entertainment Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller "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) Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
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To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Arts and Entertainment "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Arts and Entertainment
Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Arts and Entertainment The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Arts and Entertainment
No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Arts and Entertainment "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) "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 every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Arts and Entertainment
Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "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
