Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Arts and Entertainment Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
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"Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment
As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Arts and Entertainment "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Arts and Entertainment
Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
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-- Abraham Lincoln Arts and Entertainment Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Arts and Entertainment
He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Arts and Entertainment "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
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-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Arts and Entertainment I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Arts and Entertainment
It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Arts and Entertainment It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Arts and Entertainment
No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Here's to you and here's to me,
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-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Arts and Entertainment
My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides 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 Arts and Entertainment It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Arts and Entertainment
I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Arts and Entertainment Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Arts and Entertainment
"The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright 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 Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment
