Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
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-- Benjamin Disraeli Arts and Entertainment Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
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-- Frank W. Woolworth He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
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"Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Arts and Entertainment In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Arts and Entertainment
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
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-- Senator Soaper By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Arts and Entertainment "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
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- Antoine de Saint Exupery Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Arts and Entertainment
Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Arts and Entertainment MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Arts and Entertainment
"For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Arts and Entertainment 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 There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Arts and Entertainment
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott 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 All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Arts and Entertainment A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Arts and Entertainment
Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Arts and Entertainment Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
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-- Henry Miller We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Arts and Entertainment
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Arts and Entertainment This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Arts and Entertainment
The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment 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 Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Arts and Entertainment
When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Arts and Entertainment More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Arts and Entertainment
Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Arts and Entertainment Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Arts and Entertainment
