"To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) 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 If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Arts and Entertainment The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
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Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Arts and Entertainment Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Arts and Entertainment
"Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Arts and Entertainment
For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm 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 "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Arts and Entertainment The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment
Spinster: A bachelor's wife. A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Arts and Entertainment I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Arts and Entertainment
Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Arts and Entertainment Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Arts and Entertainment
I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
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-- Woody Allen Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Arts and Entertainment
Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Arts and Entertainment Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Arts and Entertainment
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Arts and Entertainment If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
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-- Katharine Hepburn 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 Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Arts and Entertainment Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Arts and Entertainment
[You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Arts and Entertainment "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
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