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-- Abraham Lincoln Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Arts and Entertainment
To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
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something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Arts and Entertainment You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Arts and Entertainment You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Arts and Entertainment
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Arts and Entertainment "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Arts and Entertainment
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Arts and Entertainment
Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Arts and Entertainment Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Arts and Entertainment
"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 I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Arts and Entertainment The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Arts and Entertainment
You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Arts and Entertainment A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos 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 "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Arts and Entertainment
Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Arts and Entertainment If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Arts and Entertainment
Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Arts and Entertainment Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Arts and Entertainment
The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Arts and Entertainment Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment
