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That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Arts and Entertainment If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Arts and Entertainment
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Arts and Entertainment To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Arts and Entertainment
"The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Arts and Entertainment We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Arts and Entertainment
In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Arts and Entertainment Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Arts and Entertainment
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Arts and Entertainment "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Arts and Entertainment
Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell May you never leave your marriage alive. Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Arts and Entertainment My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Arts and Entertainment
All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Arts and Entertainment "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Arts and Entertainment
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy 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 Arts and Entertainment If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Arts and Entertainment
Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Arts and Entertainment The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th 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 We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Arts and Entertainment For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken "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) 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 Arts and Entertainment
We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Arts and Entertainment
