Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Arts and Entertainment
It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Arts and Entertainment
"Think off-center." (George Carlin) Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Arts and Entertainment He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Arts and Entertainment
Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Arts and Entertainment The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Arts and Entertainment
"Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Arts and Entertainment "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Arts and Entertainment
Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster 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 I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Arts and Entertainment I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Arts and Entertainment
Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Arts and Entertainment When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
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Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Arts and Entertainment We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Arts and Entertainment It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Arts and Entertainment
Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Arts and Entertainment Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Arts and Entertainment
"If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Arts and Entertainment The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Arts and Entertainment
