He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
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-- Sigmund Freud Arts and Entertainment "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Arts and Entertainment
The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
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-- Steven Wright Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Arts and Entertainment "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Arts and Entertainment
I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous 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 He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Arts and Entertainment "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Arts and Entertainment
Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Arts and Entertainment Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins 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 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 Arts and Entertainment
Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Arts and Entertainment A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Arts and Entertainment
"Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
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-- Winston Churchill Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Arts and Entertainment No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra "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 not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Arts and Entertainment
"There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. "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 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 When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
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"Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) "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) Arts and Entertainment Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Arts and Entertainment
They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
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-- Rita Rudner "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Arts and Entertainment
"The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Arts and Entertainment My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
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-- E. B. White "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Arts and Entertainment
blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber 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" Arts and Entertainment Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous 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 To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
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