Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
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a fortune Arts and Entertainment Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Arts and Entertainment
In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George 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 "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Arts and Entertainment There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi "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) Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Arts and Entertainment
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Arts and Entertainment The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. 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 Arts and Entertainment
"Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Arts and Entertainment And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Arts and Entertainment
He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Arts and Entertainment A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Arts and Entertainment
People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Arts and Entertainment Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment
All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Arts and Entertainment Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Arts and Entertainment
Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Arts and Entertainment Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Arts and Entertainment
Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Arts and Entertainment It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Arts and Entertainment
I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) "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) She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Arts and Entertainment His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Arts and Entertainment
We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Arts and Entertainment Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Arts and Entertainment
