"No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Arts and Entertainment Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Arts and Entertainment
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Arts and Entertainment I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. 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) Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Arts and Entertainment We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Arts and Entertainment
Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Arts and Entertainment In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Arts and Entertainment
Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth 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 They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Arts and Entertainment 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 Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Arts and Entertainment
The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Arts and Entertainment "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Arts and Entertainment
Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Arts and Entertainment Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Arts and Entertainment
Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Arts and Entertainment To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Arts and Entertainment
Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues 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 Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Arts and Entertainment It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
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He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Arts and Entertainment Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Arts and Entertainment
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Arts and Entertainment blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment
