There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Arts and Entertainment "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Arts and Entertainment
Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Arts and Entertainment Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy 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 Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Arts and Entertainment
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Arts and Entertainment 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 Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Arts and Entertainment
We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst 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 There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Arts and Entertainment Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Arts and Entertainment
Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Arts and Entertainment Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Arts and Entertainment
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Arts and Entertainment Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Arts and Entertainment
"The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) 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 "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) Arts and Entertainment By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Arts and Entertainment
I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Arts and Entertainment "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Arts and Entertainment
In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Arts and Entertainment
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 Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Arts and Entertainment When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Arts and Entertainment
Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Arts and Entertainment Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Arts and Entertainment
