"The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
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-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Arts and Entertainment You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
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-- Dean Inge Arts and Entertainment
I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg 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 Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Arts and Entertainment Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Arts and Entertainment
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Arts and Entertainment But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Arts and Entertainment
"I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Arts and Entertainment Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Arts and Entertainment
A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Arts and Entertainment Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment
Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Arts and Entertainment Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Arts and Entertainment
An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Arts and Entertainment I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Arts and Entertainment
blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
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-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart 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. Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Arts and Entertainment When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Arts and Entertainment
The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Arts and Entertainment When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Arts and Entertainment
Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Arts and Entertainment 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 Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
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