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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Arts and Entertainment A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen "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) Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Arts and Entertainment
I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Arts and Entertainment "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) 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 "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Arts and Entertainment
If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Arts and Entertainment Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Arts and Entertainment
It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Arts and Entertainment 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 "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment
"Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Arts and Entertainment Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) 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 Arts and Entertainment
"Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Arts and Entertainment English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment
Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills "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." All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Arts and Entertainment The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment
Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Arts and Entertainment I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Arts and Entertainment
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben 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 For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Arts and Entertainment When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Arts and Entertainment
Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Arts and Entertainment "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Marriage is a rest period between romances. Arts and Entertainment
A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Arts and Entertainment My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Arts and Entertainment
