I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Arts and Entertainment A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
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We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Arts and Entertainment Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Arts and Entertainment
"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) "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Arts and Entertainment Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
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Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Arts and Entertainment
Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Arts and Entertainment If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz 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 Arts and Entertainment
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Arts and Entertainment The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Arts and Entertainment The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Arts and Entertainment
Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley 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 Arts and Entertainment
"This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Arts and Entertainment I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Arts and Entertainment
People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Arts and Entertainment Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Arts and Entertainment
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Arts and Entertainment "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
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