"In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Artists and Galleries Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Artists and Galleries
Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Artists and Galleries Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Artists and Galleries
"There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Artists and Galleries The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Artists and Galleries
"Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln 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 Artists and Galleries Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Artists and Galleries
"Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Artists and Galleries The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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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If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Artists and Galleries The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Artists and Galleries
Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Artists and Galleries I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
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"Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Artists and Galleries There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Artists and Galleries
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz 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 "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Artists and Galleries 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" The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Artists and Galleries
Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Artists and Galleries Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Artists and Galleries
If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Artists and Galleries The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
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