When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Arts and Entertainment blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Arts and Entertainment
"These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Arts and Entertainment Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Arts and Entertainment
You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Arts and Entertainment Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment
I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Arts and Entertainment "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain 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
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Arts and Entertainment Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Arts and Entertainment
Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Arts and Entertainment Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Arts and Entertainment
There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Arts and Entertainment Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Arts and Entertainment
"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Arts and Entertainment Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Arts and Entertainment
I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, 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 "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Arts and Entertainment The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
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"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Arts and Entertainment When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Arts and Entertainment
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Arts and Entertainment "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) "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 Arts and Entertainment
