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In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment "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) I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Arts and Entertainment
I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Arts and Entertainment Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Arts and Entertainment
Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Arts and Entertainment Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Arts and Entertainment
"Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Arts and Entertainment "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Arts and Entertainment
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Arts and Entertainment "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Arts and Entertainment
"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Arts and Entertainment Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Arts and Entertainment
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Arts and Entertainment It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Arts and Entertainment
"Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Arts and Entertainment "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous 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
The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Arts and Entertainment "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Arts and Entertainment
It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Arts and Entertainment Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment
Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Arts and Entertainment Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Arts and Entertainment
