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If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Arts and Entertainment It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Arts and Entertainment
"Think off-center." (George Carlin) Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Arts and Entertainment The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Arts and Entertainment
Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Arts and Entertainment The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Arts and Entertainment
There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll 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 Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Arts and Entertainment "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Arts and Entertainment
You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Arts and Entertainment "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Arts and Entertainment
the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter 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 If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Arts and Entertainment Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "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) Arts and Entertainment
"One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Arts and Entertainment
We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Arts and Entertainment "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Arts and Entertainment
"Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Arts and Entertainment Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Arts and Entertainment
"For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Arts and Entertainment "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Arts and Entertainment
And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Arts and Entertainment Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment
