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Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Visual Arts It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber "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) Visual Arts
If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Visual Arts Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Visual Arts
Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Visual Arts The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Visual Arts
If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Visual Arts The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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) Visual Arts
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Visual Arts A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Visual Arts
Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Visual Arts Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Visual Arts
A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Visual Arts "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Visual Arts
A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Visual Arts Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Visual Arts
Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Visual Arts "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Visual Arts
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died "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) You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Visual Arts The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Visual Arts
"Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Visual Arts "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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 Visual Arts
