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University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Arts and Entertainment Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Arts and Entertainment
UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "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) If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Arts and Entertainment 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 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 What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Arts and Entertainment
Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Arts and Entertainment The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Arts and Entertainment
Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Arts and Entertainment Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Arts and Entertainment
You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley 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 Arts and Entertainment I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 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
The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Arts and Entertainment If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Arts and Entertainment
"Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
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I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Arts and Entertainment I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen "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 am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment
A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Arts and Entertainment Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment
"I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Arts and Entertainment
Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Arts and Entertainment "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University You can observe a lot by watching.
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