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If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius 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 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) Arts and Entertainment The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Arts and Entertainment
"I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Arts and Entertainment Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Arts and Entertainment
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Arts and Entertainment If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment
"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason 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 Arts and Entertainment We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Arts and Entertainment
For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Arts and Entertainment There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Arts and Entertainment
I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Arts and Entertainment "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Arts and Entertainment
Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Arts and Entertainment The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Arts and Entertainment
>From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Arts and Entertainment There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Arts and Entertainment
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Arts and Entertainment I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Arts and Entertainment
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Arts and Entertainment Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Arts and Entertainment
It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Arts and Entertainment "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) 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 Arts and Entertainment
