Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Arts and Entertainment The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
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-- Henry B. Adams There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Arts and Entertainment
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Arts and Entertainment Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Arts and Entertainment
Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Arts and Entertainment "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Arts and Entertainment
The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Arts and Entertainment You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
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Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Arts and Entertainment Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Arts and Entertainment
"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 If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Arts and Entertainment Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Arts and Entertainment 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 Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show All television is children's television.
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I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Arts and Entertainment The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Arts and Entertainment
"When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Arts and Entertainment Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Arts and Entertainment
I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Arts and Entertainment
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Arts and Entertainment "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
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