blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
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-- Mark Twain I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
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-- Peter DeVries Arts and Entertainment
Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work 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.
-- "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Arts and Entertainment I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Every flower must grow through dirt.
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"I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Arts and Entertainment Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Arts and Entertainment
Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Arts and Entertainment The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Arts and Entertainment
We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Arts and Entertainment Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show 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 Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Arts and Entertainment
"Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Arts and Entertainment The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Arts and Entertainment
The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Arts and Entertainment What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Arts and Entertainment
"Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "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 Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Arts and Entertainment
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. "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) I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Arts and Entertainment You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Arts and Entertainment
"Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Arts and Entertainment A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Arts and Entertainment
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams 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 Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Arts and Entertainment But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
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