The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Arts and Entertainment Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Arts and Entertainment
I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Arts and Entertainment 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 If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
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People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Arts and Entertainment "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Arts and Entertainment
"The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th "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) "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) May you never leave your marriage alive. Arts and Entertainment Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Arts and Entertainment
I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Arts and Entertainment
Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Arts and Entertainment He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Arts and Entertainment
When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Arts and Entertainment Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Arts and Entertainment
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Arts and Entertainment Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Arts and Entertainment
Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan "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 Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Arts and Entertainment
"You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Arts and Entertainment You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Arts and Entertainment
