I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Arts and Entertainment Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Arts and Entertainment
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 Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Arts and Entertainment Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Arts and Entertainment
"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Arts and Entertainment They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower "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) Arts and Entertainment
"If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Arts and Entertainment I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Arts and Entertainment
When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Arts and Entertainment Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Arts and Entertainment
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) 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 Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment
"It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Arts and Entertainment "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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
He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Arts and Entertainment "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Arts and Entertainment
Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. "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) Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Arts and Entertainment "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Arts and Entertainment
"It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Arts and Entertainment I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Arts and Entertainment
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Arts and Entertainment You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
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