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Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Man and wife make one fool. Arts and Entertainment Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Arts and Entertainment
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 The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Arts and Entertainment "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Arts and Entertainment
He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) 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 "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Arts and Entertainment
If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Arts and Entertainment
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Arts and Entertainment "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Arts and Entertainment
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein 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 To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Arts and Entertainment "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Arts and Entertainment
Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Arts and Entertainment "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Arts and Entertainment
"I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t 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 The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Arts and Entertainment "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Arts and Entertainment
I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show 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 I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Arts and Entertainment A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Arts and Entertainment
"A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel "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) Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Arts and Entertainment Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Arts and Entertainment
Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset "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 Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Arts and Entertainment Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Arts and Entertainment
