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"Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Arts and Entertainment We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Arts and Entertainment
I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Arts and Entertainment
The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Arts and Entertainment Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment
"Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) "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) It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Arts and Entertainment The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Arts and Entertainment
Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) 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) 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
I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Arts and Entertainment A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Arts and Entertainment
"Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) "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) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Arts and Entertainment Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Arts and Entertainment
Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Arts and Entertainment Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Arts and Entertainment
"Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Arts and Entertainment Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Arts and Entertainment
I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Arts and Entertainment It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
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Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Arts and Entertainment Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Arts and Entertainment
