When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Arts and Entertainment People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Arts and Entertainment
"Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom 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 Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Arts and Entertainment If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Arts and Entertainment
blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Arts and Entertainment Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Arts and Entertainment
"The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Arts and Entertainment The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Arts and Entertainment
I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein 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 Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Arts and Entertainment Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Arts and Entertainment
If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) 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 "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Arts and Entertainment Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Arts and Entertainment
Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Arts and Entertainment I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Arts and Entertainment
Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment
Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Arts and Entertainment "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Arts and Entertainment
Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) 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 The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Arts and Entertainment "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) 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 The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Arts and Entertainment
They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Arts and Entertainment
