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"Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Arnold 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 "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) 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 Arnold
"Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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,
ign 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 "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Arnold Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Arnold
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Arnold When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Arnold
Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arnold Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Arnold
If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married "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 If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Arnold Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Arnold
I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Arnold If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Arnold
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story 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 Arnold 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 My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Arnold
When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Arnold Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford "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) Arnold
When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Arnold If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Arnold
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana 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 "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Arnold "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Arnold
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Arnold Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Arnold
