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 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 have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Arts and Entertainment "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Arts and Entertainment
I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Arts and Entertainment The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Arts and Entertainment
"The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett 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 "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Arts and Entertainment True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Arts and Entertainment
"Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Arts and Entertainment I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Arts and Entertainment
Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) "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 The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Arts and Entertainment "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Arts and Entertainment
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Arts and Entertainment Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Arts and Entertainment
In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Arts and Entertainment Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Arts and Entertainment
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner 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 Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Arts and Entertainment I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Arts and Entertainment
"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) Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Arts and Entertainment The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Arts and Entertainment
"It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Arts and Entertainment As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Arts and Entertainment
To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Arts and Entertainment "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Arts and Entertainment
