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Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Arts and Entertainment I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Arts and Entertainment
"Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Arts and Entertainment It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Arts and Entertainment
Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H 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 With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Arts and Entertainment
"Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Arts and Entertainment "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner 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
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Arts and Entertainment
"I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Arts and Entertainment
Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Arts and Entertainment I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Arts and Entertainment
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Arts and Entertainment "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment
My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Arts and Entertainment Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Arts and Entertainment
"For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Arts and Entertainment Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land "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) Arts and Entertainment
Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Arts and Entertainment "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Arts and Entertainment
