Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) By Region I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin 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 By Region
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain 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 By Region 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 It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) By Region
"When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) By Region It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story By Region
blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers By Region 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 "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin By Region
What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha "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) People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard By Region "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud By Region
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) By Region "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric By Region
Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) By Region The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) By Region
The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun By Region "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
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Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- 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 By Region I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous By Region
If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne 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 "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer By Region 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 May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James By Region
"Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde By Region If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer By Region
