"One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell My other wife is beautiful. You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Arts and Entertainment Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment
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-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Arts and Entertainment Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Arts and Entertainment
The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie Arts and Entertainment "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Arts and Entertainment
Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Arts and Entertainment When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Arts and Entertainment
Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Arts and Entertainment What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Arts and Entertainment
Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Arts and Entertainment Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Arts and Entertainment
If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Arts and Entertainment In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Arts and Entertainment
There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) 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 The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Arts and Entertainment I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Arts and Entertainment
After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Arts and Entertainment The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Arts and Entertainment
A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Arts and Entertainment Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X 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 Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard "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 Arts and Entertainment "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
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