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We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca 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 "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Arts and Entertainment The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Arts and Entertainment
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Arts and Entertainment If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Arts and Entertainment
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Arts and Entertainment When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain "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, "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Arts and Entertainment
"The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Arts and Entertainment The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Arts and Entertainment
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg "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) Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Arts and Entertainment The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire 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) "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Arts and Entertainment
You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) 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 Arts and Entertainment "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment
The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, 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 Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Arts and Entertainment You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Arts and Entertainment
For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Arts and Entertainment Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Arts and Entertainment
Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Arts and Entertainment "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi May you never leave your marriage alive. Arts and Entertainment
Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Arts and Entertainment I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Arts and Entertainment
A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Arts and Entertainment In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Arts and Entertainment
