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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Arts and Entertainment Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Arts and Entertainment
In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Arts and Entertainment "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Arts and Entertainment
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Arts and Entertainment "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Arts and Entertainment
Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) "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) Arts and Entertainment "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Arts and Entertainment
No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke 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 "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes "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) Arts and Entertainment
Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Arts and Entertainment I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Arts and Entertainment
If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde 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 In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Arts and Entertainment All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Arts and Entertainment
What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous What's new? Most of my wife. Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Arts and Entertainment How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Arts and Entertainment
I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Arts and Entertainment Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Arts and Entertainment
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes 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 Arts and Entertainment "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Arts and Entertainment
Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Arts and Entertainment Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
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