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I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Arts and Entertainment It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Arts and Entertainment
"The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) 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 "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Arts and Entertainment Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Arts and Entertainment
With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Arts and Entertainment A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Arts and Entertainment
You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers 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 We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Arts and Entertainment
The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. "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) You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Arts and Entertainment Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Arts and Entertainment
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Arts and Entertainment Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Arts and Entertainment
Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Arts and Entertainment "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment
A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Arts and Entertainment Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "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 Arts and Entertainment
Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Arts and Entertainment It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Arts and Entertainment
There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Arts and Entertainment Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier 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 His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Arts and Entertainment "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Arts and Entertainment
