"Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Arts and Entertainment The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Arts and Entertainment
In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Arts and Entertainment There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Arts and Entertainment
The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Arts and Entertainment "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Arts and Entertainment
He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Arts and Entertainment One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Arts and Entertainment
The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Arts and Entertainment I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Arts and Entertainment
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Arts and Entertainment Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Arts and Entertainment
"The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Arts and Entertainment It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Arts and Entertainment
Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Arts and Entertainment The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Arts and Entertainment
Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan 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 Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Arts and Entertainment Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Arts and Entertainment
Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Arts and Entertainment Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Arts and Entertainment
