Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Arts and Entertainment "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Arts and Entertainment
These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Arts and Entertainment "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Arts and Entertainment
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Arts and Entertainment You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Arts and Entertainment
An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Arts and Entertainment
The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Arts and Entertainment Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Arts and Entertainment
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Arts and Entertainment 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 If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Arts and Entertainment
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Arts and Entertainment Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Arts and Entertainment
Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide "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) Arts and Entertainment "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Arts and Entertainment
Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Arts and Entertainment Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Arts and Entertainment
We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Arts and Entertainment There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Arts and Entertainment
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude "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) We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Arts and Entertainment I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Arts and Entertainment
