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I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Arts and Entertainment Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Arts and Entertainment
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Arts and Entertainment "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Arts and Entertainment
Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Arts and Entertainment If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Arts and Entertainment
Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Arts and Entertainment The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Arts and Entertainment
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. 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 The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Arts and Entertainment "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Arts and Entertainment
"One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Arts and Entertainment Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher 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 Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Arts and Entertainment
Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Arts and Entertainment The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Arts and Entertainment
"It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler 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 I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Arts and Entertainment
Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Arts and Entertainment Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Arts and Entertainment
It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Arts and Entertainment A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Arts and Entertainment
The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Arts and Entertainment I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Arts and Entertainment
