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"I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
"We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) 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 Arts and Entertainment I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Arts and Entertainment
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Arts and Entertainment Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Arts and Entertainment
Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Arts and Entertainment Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Arts and Entertainment
All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Arts and Entertainment Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Arts and Entertainment
Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) "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) The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Arts and Entertainment A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Arts and Entertainment
"The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Arts and Entertainment Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment
Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 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 Arts and Entertainment "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Arts and Entertainment
"There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Arts and Entertainment Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Arts and Entertainment
Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Arts and Entertainment I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois 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 Arts and Entertainment
Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Arts and Entertainment "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Arts and Entertainment
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Arts and Entertainment Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment
