Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Arts and Entertainment Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
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My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Arts and Entertainment Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment
The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Arts and Entertainment There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Arts and Entertainment
In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Arts and Entertainment A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Arts and Entertainment
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Arts and Entertainment The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Arts and Entertainment
The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Arts and Entertainment "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Arts and Entertainment
In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Arts and Entertainment My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Arts and Entertainment
"God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Arts and Entertainment Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Arts and Entertainment
Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Arts and Entertainment Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke 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 "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Arts and Entertainment The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Arts and Entertainment
By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Arts and Entertainment "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Arts and Entertainment
