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The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Arts and Entertainment "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Arts and Entertainment
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown 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 The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Arts and Entertainment Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Arts and Entertainment
"College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Arts and Entertainment "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Arts and Entertainment
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
the fl Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Arts and Entertainment The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Arts and Entertainment
"I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" 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 Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Arts and Entertainment Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Arts and Entertainment
In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Arts and Entertainment Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Arts and Entertainment
When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Arts and Entertainment "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Arts and Entertainment
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Arts and Entertainment 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 You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Arts and Entertainment
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Arts and Entertainment The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "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." Arts and Entertainment
There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers 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,
There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado Arts and Entertainment If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Arts and Entertainment
Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Arts and Entertainment Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment
