I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
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People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
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-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau 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 The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Arts and Entertainment "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 a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
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-- H. L. Mencken Arts and Entertainment
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
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-- Martin Luther King, Jr. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
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-- Elizabeth Ashley Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
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-- Ralph Mars May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Arts and Entertainment
Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
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-- Ben Hecht Arts and Entertainment The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
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Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
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-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
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-- Helen Hayes A man in the house is worth two in the street.
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-- Oscar Wilde You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
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-- WARREN BEATTY I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Arts and Entertainment
Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
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-- Woody Allen Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Arts and Entertainment Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo 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,
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-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Arts and Entertainment
Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
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cr Arts and Entertainment Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
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-- Robert Frost By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
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-- Socrates Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
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-- Jay Leno Arts and Entertainment Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
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Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Arts and Entertainment I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Arts and Entertainment
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
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-- Socrates Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
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-- Aldous Huxley "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Arts and Entertainment As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
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Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
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