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"Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Arts and Entertainment I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Arts and Entertainment
The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Arts and Entertainment Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Arts and Entertainment
"I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Arts and Entertainment The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Arts and Entertainment
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Arts and Entertainment No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Arts and Entertainment
All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Arts and Entertainment I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Arts and Entertainment
"Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi "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 "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Arts and Entertainment
You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Arts and Entertainment I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes 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 Arts and Entertainment
For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) 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 Arts and Entertainment We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Arts and Entertainment
I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein "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) Arts and Entertainment >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Arts and Entertainment
Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Arts and Entertainment What's new? Most of my wife. Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Arts and Entertainment
"We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Arts and Entertainment Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
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 "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Arts and Entertainment
