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"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 In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Shopping I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Shopping
"We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Shopping I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Shopping
"Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Shopping I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Shopping
The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Shopping This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow Shopping
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Shopping Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Shopping
Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Shopping The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "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') Shopping
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Shopping "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Shopping
Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Shopping Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Shopping
Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Shopping Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Shopping
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Shopping "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Shopping
The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Shopping Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Shopping
