Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
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-- Zora Neale Hurston I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Arts and Entertainment "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) Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
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-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Arts and Entertainment
Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Arts and Entertainment I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Arts and Entertainment
The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Arts and Entertainment The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Arts and Entertainment
Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Arts and Entertainment I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Arts and Entertainment
In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. "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 "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) There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) 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 True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Arts and Entertainment
Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Arts and Entertainment
Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Arts and Entertainment Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb 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) If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Arts and Entertainment Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Arts and Entertainment
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Arts and Entertainment If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Arts and Entertainment
"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Arts and Entertainment
"To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Arts and Entertainment The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Arts and Entertainment
