Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Arts and Entertainment The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Arts and Entertainment
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Arts and Entertainment Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Arts and Entertainment
All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Arts and Entertainment Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Arts and Entertainment
He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Arts and Entertainment 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 Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Arts and Entertainment
Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Arts and Entertainment Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West 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 Arts and Entertainment
Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Arts and Entertainment I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Arts and Entertainment
"A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Arts and Entertainment If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Arts and Entertainment
"I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Arts and Entertainment Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Arts and Entertainment
It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Arts and Entertainment "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Arts and Entertainment
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Arts and Entertainment The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment
We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Arts and Entertainment "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
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