The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Arts and Entertainment The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Arts and Entertainment
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Arts and Entertainment "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Arts and Entertainment
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Arts and Entertainment As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Arts and Entertainment
"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Arts and Entertainment Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Arts and Entertainment
For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Arts and Entertainment I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Arts and Entertainment
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Arts and Entertainment
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Arts and Entertainment "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment
"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Arts and Entertainment "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Arts and Entertainment
If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Arts and Entertainment "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Arts and Entertainment
Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Arts and Entertainment The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Arts and Entertainment
"The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Arts and Entertainment Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Arts and Entertainment
