"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Artists and Galleries The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
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-- G. K. Chesterton One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
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-- Oscar Wilde Artists and Galleries
No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Artists and Galleries Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Artists and Galleries
The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Artists and Galleries The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Artists and Galleries
Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Artists and Galleries Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Artists and Galleries
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Artists and Galleries "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Artists and Galleries
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Artists and Galleries "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Artists and Galleries
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Artists and Galleries Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Artists and Galleries
Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President "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.) Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Artists and Galleries Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Artists and Galleries
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Artists and Galleries Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Artists and Galleries
They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Artists and Galleries If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
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-- H.L. Mencken Artists and Galleries
Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Artists and Galleries If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Artists and Galleries
