The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Arts and Entertainment This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Arts and Entertainment
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Arts and Entertainment There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Arts and Entertainment
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Arts and Entertainment
Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Arts and Entertainment I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Arts and Entertainment
You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Arts and Entertainment
"Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Arts and Entertainment Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Arts and Entertainment
When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Arts and Entertainment There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Arts and Entertainment
If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict 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 I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Arts and Entertainment
Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Arts and Entertainment
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Arts and Entertainment If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Arts and Entertainment
My other wife is beautiful. Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Marriage is a rest period between romances. Arts and Entertainment Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
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