Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
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-- George Bird Evans Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
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-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion "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 To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Arts and Entertainment The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) 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 "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
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If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
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-- Douglas Coupland I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Arts and Entertainment "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) "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) A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
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back with ano Arts and Entertainment
May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Arts and Entertainment Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
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"We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Arts and Entertainment Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Arts and Entertainment
Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Arts and Entertainment If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Arts and Entertainment
He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Arts and Entertainment "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) 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 "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Arts and Entertainment
The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
"One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Arts and Entertainment blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
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"Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Arts and Entertainment He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole "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) "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) Arts and Entertainment
