"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Rulers and Royalty "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Rulers and Royalty
If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Rulers and Royalty Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Rulers and Royalty
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Rulers and Royalty No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Rulers and Royalty
Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. 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 I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Rulers and Royalty If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Rulers and Royalty
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 "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Rulers and Royalty I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Rulers and Royalty
"This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Rulers and Royalty The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Rulers and Royalty
I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Rulers and Royalty It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Rulers and Royalty
Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall Rulers and Royalty "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Rulers and Royalty
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) 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 Rulers and Royalty Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Rulers and Royalty
Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen 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 Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Rulers and Royalty "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Rulers and Royalty
Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Rulers and Royalty "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Rulers and Royalty
