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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Arts and Entertainment "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Arts and Entertainment
Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Arts and Entertainment A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Arts and Entertainment
"Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Arts and Entertainment The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Arts and Entertainment
Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. "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) All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Arts and Entertainment It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Arts and Entertainment
"Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Arts and Entertainment A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Arts and Entertainment
"The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Arts and Entertainment Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "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 Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Arts and Entertainment
"Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Arts and Entertainment .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Arts and Entertainment
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Arts and Entertainment Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Arts and Entertainment
"In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Arts and Entertainment "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Arts and Entertainment
A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Arts and Entertainment
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Arts and Entertainment We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Arts and Entertainment
