Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Arts and Entertainment A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Arts and Entertainment
Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Arts and Entertainment I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen 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 History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Arts and Entertainment
"If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes 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 It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Arts and Entertainment Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Arts and Entertainment
"I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Arts and Entertainment The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Arts and Entertainment
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Arts and Entertainment 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 I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Arts and Entertainment
It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Arts and Entertainment We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
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"I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Arts and Entertainment Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Arts and Entertainment
Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Man and wife make one fool. Arts and Entertainment "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Arts and Entertainment
Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Arts and Entertainment I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Arts and Entertainment
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Arts and Entertainment The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Arts and Entertainment
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Arts and Entertainment The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
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