The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. "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) The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Arts and Entertainment The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Arts and 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 It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Arts and Entertainment Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Arts and Entertainment
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Arts and Entertainment Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche 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 Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Arts and Entertainment
If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker 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 The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Arts and Entertainment Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Arts and Entertainment
"... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Arts and Entertainment "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Arts and Entertainment
You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) 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 Arts and Entertainment "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Arts and Entertainment
An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Arts and Entertainment Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Arts and Entertainment
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs 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, Arts and Entertainment "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Arts and Entertainment
A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Arts and Entertainment
Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Arts and Entertainment The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Arts and Entertainment
"This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) 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 "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Arts and Entertainment Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment
