Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Arts and Entertainment My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Arts and Entertainment
"One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson 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 You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Arts and Entertainment Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Arts and Entertainment
"Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 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.
-- Crowf Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx 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 I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Arts and Entertainment In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Arts and Entertainment
"Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Arts and Entertainment Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Arts and Entertainment
blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Arts and Entertainment "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Arts and Entertainment
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton "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) Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Arts and Entertainment
Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Arts and Entertainment As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Arts and Entertainment
Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Arts and Entertainment Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. 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 Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Arts and Entertainment
A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Arts and Entertainment We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Arts and Entertainment
"My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Arts and Entertainment I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
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