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Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Arts and Entertainment There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Arts and Entertainment
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Arts and Entertainment The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Arts and Entertainment
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Arts and Entertainment "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Arts and Entertainment
There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Arts and Entertainment I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Arts and Entertainment
"Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Arts and Entertainment
When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Arts and Entertainment When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Arts and Entertainment
If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Arts and Entertainment And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Arts and Entertainment
The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Arts and Entertainment The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Arts and Entertainment
"There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Arts and Entertainment Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca 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) Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Arts and Entertainment "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Arts and Entertainment
"Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Arts and Entertainment Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Arts and Entertainment
