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"You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Arts and Entertainment There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Arts and Entertainment
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Arts and Entertainment "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Arts and Entertainment
"Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn 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, You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Arts and Entertainment I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Arts and Entertainment
"One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Arts and Entertainment They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Arts and Entertainment
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Arts and Entertainment Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Arts and Entertainment
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Arts and Entertainment When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Arts and Entertainment
Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Arts and Entertainment Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment
For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Arts and Entertainment
Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Arts and Entertainment "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Arts and Entertainment
The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Arts and Entertainment "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Arts and Entertainment
I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain "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) Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Arts and Entertainment At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Arts and Entertainment
