You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Arts and Entertainment "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
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-- Heywood Brown Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
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- Lao-Tzu "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Arts and Entertainment Silence is argument carried out by other means.
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"One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
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I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Arts and Entertainment "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Arts and Entertainment
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
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quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Arts and Entertainment Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
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-- James Baldwin The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
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Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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-- Voltaire The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Arts and Entertainment blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
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Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Arts and Entertainment A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
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- Samuel Johnson Arts and Entertainment
blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
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ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Arts and Entertainment Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment
To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
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-- Anon. Arts and Entertainment Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
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We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Arts and Entertainment Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
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"If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Arts and Entertainment "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
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