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Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Arts and Entertainment "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment
The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Arts and Entertainment Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Arts and Entertainment
Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Arts and Entertainment Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Arts and Entertainment
When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Arts and Entertainment Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Arts and Entertainment
If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Arts and Entertainment "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Arts and Entertainment
"Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) 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 Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Arts and Entertainment Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying 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
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A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Arts and Entertainment Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Arts and Entertainment
"Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Marriage is a rest period between romances. The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Arts and Entertainment Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Arts and Entertainment
All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Arts and Entertainment Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Arts and Entertainment
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Arts and Entertainment
If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Arts and Entertainment The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment
