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bre Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Arts and Entertainment We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Arts and Entertainment
"If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Arts and Entertainment
I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain 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 power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Arts and Entertainment
True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Arts and Entertainment When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Arts and Entertainment
To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Arts and Entertainment Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment
A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs 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 If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Arts and Entertainment Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. 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 Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Arts and Entertainment Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Arts and Entertainment
"Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
"If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Arts and Entertainment He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Arts and Entertainment
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Arts and Entertainment Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Arts and Entertainment
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Arts and Entertainment A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Arts and Entertainment
Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Arts and Entertainment I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Arts and Entertainment
