The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson 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 "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Arts and Entertainment If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
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If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Arts and Entertainment
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment 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 If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
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Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Arts and Entertainment The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment
"True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Arts and Entertainment "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Arts and Entertainment
"Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Arts and Entertainment Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Arts and Entertainment
"One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Arts and Entertainment Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Arts and Entertainment
The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Arts and Entertainment The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Arts and Entertainment
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Arts and Entertainment Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment
To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Arts and Entertainment Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Arts and Entertainment
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein 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
remains fa My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Arts and Entertainment "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Arts and Entertainment
My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
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-- Ernest Dimnet Arts and Entertainment That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
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