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Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan 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 "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Arts and Entertainment I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Arts and Entertainment
"An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Arts and Entertainment Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Arts and Entertainment
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Arts and Entertainment "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Arts and Entertainment
The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Arts and Entertainment You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Arts and Entertainment
The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Arts and Entertainment Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Arts and Entertainment
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous 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 Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Arts and Entertainment
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Arts and Entertainment LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Arts and Entertainment
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Arts and Entertainment That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Arts and Entertainment
If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Arts and Entertainment "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Arts and Entertainment
We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Arts and Entertainment And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Arts and Entertainment
Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge 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) Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken "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 The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Arts and Entertainment When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Arts and Entertainment
