After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) 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 If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Arts and Entertainment
"An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Arts and Entertainment I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Arts and Entertainment
Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Arts and Entertainment What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Arts and Entertainment
"Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Arts and Entertainment Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Arts and Entertainment
"Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Arts and Entertainment "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Arts and Entertainment
"To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Arts and Entertainment Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Arts and Entertainment
"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) Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Arts and Entertainment Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Arts and Entertainment
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Arts and Entertainment When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "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
"I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Arts and Entertainment
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Arts and Entertainment He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Arts and Entertainment
"If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) 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 Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Arts and Entertainment And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Arts and Entertainment
