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-- Robert L. Stevenson 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 Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Arts and Entertainment When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Arts and Entertainment
A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Arts and Entertainment "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
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-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Arts and Entertainment
"Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Arts and Entertainment "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
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There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Arts and Entertainment The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Arts and Entertainment
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
successfully He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
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-- Steven Wright Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Arts and Entertainment
Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment Never eat more than you can lift.
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-- Pope Julius III 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 Arts and Entertainment
"Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Arts and Entertainment "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Arts and Entertainment
He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Arts and Entertainment People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Arts and Entertainment
Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Arts and Entertainment The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Arts and Entertainment
This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Arts and Entertainment "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Arts and Entertainment
Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
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-- Dawn French "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Arts and Entertainment Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Arts and Entertainment
