Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) The better part of valor is discretion.
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some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
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-- Oscar Wilde Localities
Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Localities The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Localities
"From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Localities If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Localities
"May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Localities A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Localities
I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Localities You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Localities
"I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Localities "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Localities
I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Localities "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Localities
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Localities The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola 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
a fortune "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Localities
Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West 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 Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Localities "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Localities
Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Localities A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Localities
Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Localities Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Localities
