The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Arts and Entertainment "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
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"A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon 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 If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Arts and Entertainment Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii "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) Arts and Entertainment
The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Arts and Entertainment "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Arts and Entertainment
In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Arts and Entertainment The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Arts and Entertainment
"Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Arts and Entertainment My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Arts and Entertainment
My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Arts and Entertainment "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Arts and Entertainment
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Arts and Entertainment "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment
Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Arts and Entertainment Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Arts and Entertainment
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Arts and Entertainment Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Arts and Entertainment
The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Arts and Entertainment The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Arts and Entertainment
My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA 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 I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Arts and Entertainment I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Arts and Entertainment
