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My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig 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 There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Arts and Entertainment One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Arts and Entertainment
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Arts and Entertainment Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Arts and Entertainment
"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 "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Arts and Entertainment "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Arts and Entertainment
And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Arts and Entertainment Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment
"How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Arts and Entertainment Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Arts and Entertainment
Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Arts and Entertainment I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Arts and Entertainment
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Arts and Entertainment If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Arts and Entertainment
"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Arts and Entertainment "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Arts and Entertainment
When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Arts and Entertainment It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Arts and Entertainment
To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Arts and Entertainment "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes 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 Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Arts and Entertainment Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Arts and Entertainment
