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God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Arts and Entertainment "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Arts and Entertainment
Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Arts and Entertainment A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Arts and Entertainment
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Arts and Entertainment Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso 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 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 Arts and Entertainment
May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Arts and Entertainment 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 The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Arts and Entertainment
Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Arts and Entertainment Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Arts and Entertainment
Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Arts and Entertainment Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Arts and Entertainment
Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Arts and Entertainment With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Arts and Entertainment
"Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Arts and Entertainment My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Arts and Entertainment
Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Arts and Entertainment "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Arts and Entertainment
If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Arts and Entertainment The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Arts and Entertainment
"I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Arts and Entertainment I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment
