The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Arts and Entertainment
Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda 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 When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
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-- E. W. Howe For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Arts and Entertainment
A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Arts and Entertainment The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Arts and Entertainment
To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Arts and Entertainment Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Arts and Entertainment
To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi Arts and Entertainment Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Arts and Entertainment
I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Arts and Entertainment Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Arts and Entertainment
The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Arts and Entertainment "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Arts and Entertainment
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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 If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Arts and Entertainment This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment
"Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Arts and Entertainment Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Arts and Entertainment
He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Arts and Entertainment A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous 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 Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Arts and Entertainment
Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Arts and Entertainment In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Arts and Entertainment
