Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Arts and Entertainment It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Arts and Entertainment
I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Arts and Entertainment In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Arts and Entertainment
The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Arts and Entertainment Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Arts and Entertainment
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Arts and Entertainment I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Arts and Entertainment
If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Arts and Entertainment In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Arts and Entertainment
"Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Arts and Entertainment Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Arts and Entertainment
I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Arts and Entertainment Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Arts and Entertainment
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Arts and Entertainment Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Arts and Entertainment
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Arts and Entertainment A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Arts and Entertainment
Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Arts and Entertainment The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment
"Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Arts and Entertainment "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Arts and Entertainment
