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"To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Arts and Entertainment Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Arts and Entertainment
...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Arts and Entertainment "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Arts and Entertainment
I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Arts and Entertainment Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Arts and Entertainment
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Arts and Entertainment In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Arts and Entertainment
Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder 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 Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Arts and Entertainment Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Arts and Entertainment
If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Arts and Entertainment Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Arts and Entertainment
Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Arts and Entertainment Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Arts and Entertainment
They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Arts and Entertainment "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Arts and Entertainment
"I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Arts and Entertainment Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Arts and Entertainment
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Arts and Entertainment "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Arts and Entertainment
You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Arts and Entertainment A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Arts and Entertainment
