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The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Monarchy "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, This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Monarchy
"We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Monarchy Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Monarchy
If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Monarchy blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Monarchy
Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Monarchy If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Monarchy
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Monarchy Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Monarchy
Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Monarchy Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Monarchy
When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Monarchy The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Monarchy
If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short 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 Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Monarchy Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Monarchy
When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Monarchy Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cĉsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Monarchy
"Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Monarchy Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Monarchy
The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Monarchy "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Monarchy
