"All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Arts and Entertainment He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
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The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Arts and Entertainment "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
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-- Albert Einstein Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Arts and Entertainment
When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
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-- James Holt McGavran Arts and Entertainment The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
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-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Arts and Entertainment
The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
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-- Moliere Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Arts and Entertainment
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
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-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Arts and Entertainment There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
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Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
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-- Rita Rudner Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Arts and Entertainment
My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Arts and Entertainment "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
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A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Arts and Entertainment "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment
"There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Arts and Entertainment Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Arts and Entertainment
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Arts and Entertainment I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Arts and Entertainment
You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Arts and Entertainment "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
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