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He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Arts and Entertainment "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
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We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill "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) Arts and Entertainment "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) "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, Arts and Entertainment
A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Arts and Entertainment Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Arts and Entertainment
The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Arts and Entertainment A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Arts and Entertainment
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Arts and Entertainment
"When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Arts and Entertainment There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Arts and Entertainment
"If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Arts and Entertainment I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Arts and Entertainment
"If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon 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 In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Arts and Entertainment
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Arts and Entertainment Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Arts and Entertainment
A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Arts and Entertainment Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Arts and Entertainment
"The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Arts and Entertainment The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Arts and Entertainment
