"One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Arts and Entertainment "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) Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may Arts and Entertainment Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Arts and Entertainment
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Arts and Entertainment That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Arts and Entertainment
"Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Arts and Entertainment Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Arts and Entertainment
There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Arts and Entertainment In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Arts and Entertainment
The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Arts and Entertainment I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Arts and Entertainment
Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Arts and Entertainment If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson "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) Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Arts and Entertainment
To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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 "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Arts and Entertainment There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Arts and Entertainment
Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope "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 I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Arts and Entertainment
"Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Arts and Entertainment I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Arts and Entertainment
You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Arts and Entertainment 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 Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Arts and Entertainment
