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And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Arts and Entertainment The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Arts and Entertainment
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 There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle 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 "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Arts and Entertainment Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Arts and Entertainment
My other wife is beautiful. "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Arts and Entertainment People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Arts and Entertainment
"To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Arts and Entertainment If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Arts and Entertainment
"When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea 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 If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Arts and Entertainment "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Arts and Entertainment
"One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Arts and Entertainment "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Arts and Entertainment
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Arts and Entertainment Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw 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 Arts and Entertainment
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Arts and Entertainment My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Arts and Entertainment
"The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac Arts and Entertainment 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 The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Arts and Entertainment
We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) 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 This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Arts and Entertainment
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Arts and Entertainment It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Arts and Entertainment
