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Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Arts and Entertainment "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Arts and Entertainment
The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Arts and Entertainment "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) 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
"The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Arts and Entertainment Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Arts and Entertainment
I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Arts and Entertainment I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Arts and Entertainment
The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) May you never leave your marriage alive. "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Arts and Entertainment Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch 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 Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Arts and Entertainment
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Arts and Entertainment Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Arts and Entertainment
"Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Arts and Entertainment We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Arts and Entertainment
People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Arts and Entertainment The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment
At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Arts and Entertainment Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Arts and Entertainment
You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Arts and Entertainment "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown 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 "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Arts and Entertainment All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Arts and Entertainment
