In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Arts and Entertainment Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
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Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Arts and Entertainment The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Arts and Entertainment
There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Arts and Entertainment
Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden "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 "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Arts and Entertainment It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Arts and Entertainment
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "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) "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Arts and Entertainment Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Spinster: A bachelor's wife. It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Arts and Entertainment
Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery 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 "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Arts and Entertainment Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Arts and Entertainment
Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Arts and Entertainment Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Arts and Entertainment
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Arts and Entertainment Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Arts and Entertainment
Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Arts and Entertainment "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Arts and Entertainment
Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Arts and Entertainment In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Arts and Entertainment
"Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died 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 An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Arts and Entertainment If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
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-- H. L. Mencken Arts and Entertainment
