Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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-- Mother Theresa The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
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Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
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-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
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-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Arts and Entertainment
"Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Arts and Entertainment Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Black holes are where God divided by zero.
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There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Arts and Entertainment "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Arts and Entertainment
Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
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-- Adela Rogers St. John Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
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-- John Adams, dying words Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
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-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Arts and Entertainment In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
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"The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Arts and Entertainment A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
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"When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Arts and Entertainment He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Arts and Entertainment
"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Arts and Entertainment A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
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"The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Arts and Entertainment The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Arts and Entertainment
May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Arts and Entertainment He who laughs last didn't get it.
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