If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker 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 you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov Arts and Entertainment "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) 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 "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Arts and Entertainment
A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Arts and Entertainment Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Arts and Entertainment
We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and May you never leave your marriage alive. "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Arts and Entertainment Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Arts and Entertainment
If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Arts and Entertainment The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Arts and Entertainment
In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Arts and Entertainment I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Arts and Entertainment
Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Arts and Entertainment I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Arts and Entertainment
My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Arts and Entertainment Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Arts and Entertainment
You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) "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 Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Arts and Entertainment The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Arts and Entertainment
"All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Arts and Entertainment "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Arts and Entertainment
If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Arts and Entertainment Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Arts and Entertainment
"Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Arts and Entertainment Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
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