Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg Arts and Entertainment The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment
We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Arts and Entertainment Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Arts and Entertainment
If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t "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 Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Arts and Entertainment "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Arts and Entertainment
If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Arts and Entertainment My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment
I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Arts and Entertainment I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Arts and Entertainment
Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Arts and Entertainment
Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Arts and Entertainment Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken "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) Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Arts and Entertainment
Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Arts and Entertainment It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Arts and Entertainment
The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Arts and Entertainment In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Arts and Entertainment
He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Arts and Entertainment We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Arts and Entertainment
"If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) "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) The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Arts and Entertainment No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. 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
