The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Arts and Entertainment "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 "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment
To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment "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) Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Arts and Entertainment
Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Arts and Entertainment
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) 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 The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Arts and Entertainment In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Arts and Entertainment
I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Arts and Entertainment We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment
I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Arts and Entertainment Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Arts and Entertainment
"You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk 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 In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Arts and Entertainment 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 Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) 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 blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Arts and Entertainment
"A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Arts and Entertainment Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Arts and Entertainment
"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Arts and Entertainment Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment
"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 Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Arts and Entertainment The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Arts and Entertainment
