There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- 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 It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Arts and Entertainment Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Arts and Entertainment
My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Arts and Entertainment There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Arts and Entertainment
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Arts and Entertainment This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Arts and Entertainment
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Arts and Entertainment
"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Arts and Entertainment A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown 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 "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Arts and Entertainment Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Arts and Entertainment
"People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Arts and Entertainment "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Arts and Entertainment
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Arts and Entertainment A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Arts and Entertainment
The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Arts and Entertainment A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Arts and Entertainment
He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Arts and Entertainment I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Arts and Entertainment
"I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Arts and Entertainment Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Arts and Entertainment
