"I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Arts and Entertainment Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
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-- Sigmund Freud Arts and Entertainment
"A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Arts and Entertainment In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Arts and Entertainment
I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Arts and Entertainment Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem "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) Arts and Entertainment
The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Arts and Entertainment Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Arts and Entertainment
I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Arts and Entertainment "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman 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
You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Arts and Entertainment Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Arts and Entertainment
And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Arts and Entertainment "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Arts and Entertainment
Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Arts and Entertainment Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Arts and Entertainment
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Arts and Entertainment It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin 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
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We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Arts and Entertainment Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Arts and Entertainment
