"Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
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-- Robert Orben Arts and Entertainment We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
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-- Tom Robbins A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
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Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Arts and Entertainment True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show 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. Arts and Entertainment
"I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Arts and Entertainment "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Arts and Entertainment
In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Arts and Entertainment Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Arts and Entertainment
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Arts and Entertainment War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Arts and Entertainment
The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Arts and Entertainment 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 "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Arts and Entertainment
"Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
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-- William Gladstone "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Arts and Entertainment A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Arts and Entertainment
Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Arts and Entertainment Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Arts and Entertainment
I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Arts and Entertainment ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Arts and Entertainment
If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) "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) Arts and Entertainment "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Arts and Entertainment
Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Arts and Entertainment When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein "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 The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Arts and Entertainment
