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-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
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-- Woody Allen Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
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-- Oscar Wilde I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
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-- Shirley Temple Black Arts and Entertainment
I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
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-- Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Arts and Entertainment
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
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-- Herbert Spencer Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
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-- Gerald Holton The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
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with Arts and Entertainment Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
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-- Orison Swett Marden Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Arts and Entertainment
In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
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-- Nicholas Negroponte Arts and Entertainment It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Arts and Entertainment
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
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-- Arnold Bennett "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Arts and Entertainment Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Arts and Entertainment
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Arts and Entertainment Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Arts and Entertainment
Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
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-- Benjamin Franklin Arts and Entertainment blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment
Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
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-- Calvin Arts and Entertainment Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
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-- Douglas Coupland Arts and Entertainment
Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Arts and Entertainment "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
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Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
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-- Countess of Blessington "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
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-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Arts and Entertainment Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Arts and Entertainment
We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham 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 Arts and Entertainment What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
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