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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Arts and Entertainment Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Arts and Entertainment
"Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) 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 Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Arts and Entertainment blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Arts and Entertainment
"Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Arts and Entertainment Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Arts and Entertainment
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Arts and Entertainment Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment
"If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Arts and Entertainment "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Arts and Entertainment
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Arts and Entertainment Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Arts and Entertainment
Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Arts and Entertainment Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Arts and Entertainment
blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Arts and Entertainment If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Arts and Entertainment
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz "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 "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Arts and Entertainment
"When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Arts and Entertainment "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Arts and Entertainment
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Arts and Entertainment We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Arts and Entertainment
