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"Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Arts and Entertainment May you never leave your marriage alive. There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Arts and Entertainment
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 If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Arts and Entertainment Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine 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
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Arts and Entertainment To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Arts and Entertainment
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Arts and Entertainment "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Arts and Entertainment
"No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Arts and Entertainment I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
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Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Arts and Entertainment "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Arts and Entertainment
Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Arts and Entertainment In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Arts and Entertainment
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Arts and Entertainment "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Arts and Entertainment
"I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Arts and Entertainment The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Arts and Entertainment
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) 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
Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Arts and Entertainment Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Arts and Entertainment
