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I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor "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) My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Arts and Entertainment I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Arts and Entertainment
Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Arts and Entertainment Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Arts and Entertainment
Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Arts and Entertainment Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Arts and Entertainment
Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Arts and Entertainment I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) 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
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Arts and Entertainment "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment
"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Arts and Entertainment blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Arts and Entertainment
You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) "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) Arts and Entertainment Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Arts and Entertainment
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger "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 am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Arts and Entertainment
"He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Arts and Entertainment "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Arts and Entertainment
Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Arts and Entertainment One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Man and wife make one fool. Arts and Entertainment
"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 People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Arts and Entertainment "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Arts and Entertainment
