Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
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-- Jeremy S. Anderson Arts and Entertainment Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
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-- Cormac McCarthy Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Arts and Entertainment
"Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Arts and Entertainment Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Arts and Entertainment
The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Arts and Entertainment "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Arts and Entertainment
A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Arts and Entertainment "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
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"Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Arts and Entertainment It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Arts and Entertainment
I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Arts and Entertainment The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Arts and Entertainment
It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle May you never leave your marriage alive. "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Arts and Entertainment "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Arts and Entertainment
Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Arts and Entertainment
"Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. "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 One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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 Arts and Entertainment Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Arts and Entertainment
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) He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Arts and Entertainment "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Arts and Entertainment
It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Arts and Entertainment In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
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