If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Arts and Entertainment A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Arts and Entertainment
What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Arts and Entertainment "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Arts and Entertainment
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards 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 I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Arts and Entertainment Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz "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) "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Arts and Entertainment
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Arts and Entertainment "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Arts and Entertainment
After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Arts and Entertainment Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment
You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Arts and Entertainment
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Arts and Entertainment
The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Arts and Entertainment I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Arts and Entertainment
If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. 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
scumbags dev I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) "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) Arts and Entertainment Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment
"Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen 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 It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Arts and Entertainment It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Arts and Entertainment
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
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