The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Arts and Entertainment Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Arts and Entertainment
I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone "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) This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Arts and Entertainment Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Arts and Entertainment
"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "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 The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Arts and Entertainment The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Arts and Entertainment
What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Arts and Entertainment Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment
"Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Arts and Entertainment The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Arts and Entertainment
"A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Arts and Entertainment Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Arts and Entertainment
You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Arts and Entertainment Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Arts and Entertainment
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Arts and Entertainment
We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Arts and Entertainment We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Arts and Entertainment
"Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Arts and Entertainment Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Arts and Entertainment
If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Arts and Entertainment I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Hell is paved with good samaritans.
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