A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Cinema I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Cinema
If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Cinema In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Cinema
The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson 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 Cinema "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Cinema
I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Cinema Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Cinema
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Cinema Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Cinema
"The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Cinema More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Cinema
The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Cinema A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Cinema
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Cinema Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Cinema
"As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Cinema The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Cinema
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Cinema Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Cinema
The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Cinema I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Cinema
