"Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Arts and Entertainment The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Arts and Entertainment
"I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Arts and Entertainment "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Arts and Entertainment
Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Arts and Entertainment Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Arts and Entertainment
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Arts and Entertainment Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards 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 By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
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If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Arts and Entertainment "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Arts and Entertainment
If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Arts and Entertainment Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Arts and Entertainment
Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Arts and Entertainment It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Arts and Entertainment
The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Arts and Entertainment
Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Arts and Entertainment Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Arts and Entertainment
"I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Arts and Entertainment
My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Arts and Entertainment Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Arts and Entertainment
