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Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Arts and Entertainment Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Arts and Entertainment
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man 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 Arts and Entertainment The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Arts and Entertainment
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Arts and Entertainment "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Arts and Entertainment
If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Arts and Entertainment Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Arts and Entertainment
Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Arts and Entertainment It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Arts and Entertainment
The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Arts and Entertainment For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment
We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Arts and Entertainment Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Arts and Entertainment
"Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Arts and Entertainment
"Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Arts and Entertainment The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Arts and Entertainment
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 If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Arts and Entertainment With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Arts and Entertainment
In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Arts and Entertainment "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Arts and Entertainment
