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Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Arts and Entertainment Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Arts and Entertainment
The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings 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. Arts and Entertainment Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Arts and Entertainment
Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Arts and Entertainment You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Arts and Entertainment
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Arts and Entertainment To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Arts and Entertainment
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Arts and Entertainment "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge 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 Arts and Entertainment
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Arts and Entertainment "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Arts and Entertainment
"Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Arts and Entertainment Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Arts and Entertainment
"A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Arts and Entertainment Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Arts and Entertainment
"Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Arts and Entertainment The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Arts and Entertainment
The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Spinster: A bachelor's wife. To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker 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 Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment
Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Arts and Entertainment "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Arts and Entertainment
