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Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
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-- Polish proverb "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Entertainment
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Entertainment Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Entertainment
"Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Entertainment Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Entertainment
If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
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-- Betty Shabazz It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Entertainment I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Entertainment
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
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- Sir Winston Churchill We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
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-- Abraham Maslow Entertainment I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Entertainment
There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Entertainment I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Entertainment
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 "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
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-- G. K. Chesterton Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Entertainment The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
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"The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Entertainment I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Entertainment
Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
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-- Agnes Repplier Entertainment "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, Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Entertainment
Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
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-- Tom Robbins Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Entertainment "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
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"The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Entertainment "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
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-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Entertainment
