A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
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-- Charles Brower Arts and Entertainment Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Arts and Entertainment
Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Arts and Entertainment "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
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-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment
We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Arts and Entertainment It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Arts and Entertainment
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Arts and Entertainment We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Arts and Entertainment
I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Arts and Entertainment
Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Arts and Entertainment Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Arts and Entertainment
There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Arts and Entertainment Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Arts and Entertainment
Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Arts and Entertainment A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Arts and Entertainment
They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Arts and Entertainment I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Arts and Entertainment
Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Arts and Entertainment Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Arts and Entertainment
It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Arts and Entertainment Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
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