If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Arts and Entertainment Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Arts and Entertainment
The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Arts and Entertainment If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Arts and Entertainment
Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Arts and Entertainment "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Arts and Entertainment
"Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Arts and Entertainment I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Arts and Entertainment
God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Arts and Entertainment Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Arts and Entertainment
Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Arts and Entertainment He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be "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 Wilhelm Nietzsche) Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Arts and Entertainment
"We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Arts and Entertainment I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger "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 Arts and Entertainment
Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Arts and Entertainment The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Arts and Entertainment
This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Arts and Entertainment If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Arts and Entertainment
>From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Arts and Entertainment I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla Arts and Entertainment
I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Arts and Entertainment I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Arts and Entertainment
