Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment
"It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Arts and Entertainment Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Arts and Entertainment
A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
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-- Tom Lehrer "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Arts and Entertainment The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein "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) Arts and Entertainment
Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Arts and Entertainment "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Arts and Entertainment
The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Arts and Entertainment Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Arts and Entertainment
You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Arts and Entertainment "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Arts and Entertainment
I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Arts and Entertainment "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Arts and Entertainment
Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Arts and Entertainment Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Arts and Entertainment
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Arts and Entertainment Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Arts and Entertainment
"Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Arts and Entertainment The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Arts and Entertainment
Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Arts and Entertainment If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Arts and Entertainment
