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"I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln "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) "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Arts and Entertainment I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Arts and Entertainment
Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Arts and Entertainment It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Arts and Entertainment
The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Arts and Entertainment We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Arts and Entertainment
"I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Arts and Entertainment Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Arts and Entertainment
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Arts and Entertainment "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Arts and Entertainment
Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Arts and Entertainment It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Arts and Entertainment
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Arts and Entertainment Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward What's new? Most of my wife. Arts and Entertainment
"I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Arts and Entertainment "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Arts and Entertainment
We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. 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 Arts and Entertainment
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Arts and Entertainment Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard 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 There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Arts and Entertainment "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward "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 Arts and Entertainment
