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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 English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
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-- Steven Wright Arts and Entertainment It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White 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) "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Arts and Entertainment "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Arts and Entertainment
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Arts and Entertainment Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment
"Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Arts and Entertainment If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Arts and Entertainment
Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) 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 Arts and Entertainment The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Arts and Entertainment
You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Arts and Entertainment The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment
"Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Arts and Entertainment I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Arts and Entertainment
There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Arts and Entertainment "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Arts and Entertainment
He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Arts and Entertainment There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Arts and Entertainment
There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Arts and Entertainment 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." ( Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. 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 Arts and Entertainment
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Arts and Entertainment "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
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