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What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Arts and Entertainment The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Arts and Entertainment
Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Arts and Entertainment When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Arts and Entertainment
"Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Arts and Entertainment "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Arts and Entertainment
Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Arts and Entertainment A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may Arts and Entertainment Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry 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.
Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Arts and Entertainment
Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Arts and Entertainment Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. "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 Arts and Entertainment
For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Arts and Entertainment When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Arts and Entertainment
Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Arts and Entertainment I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Arts and Entertainment
The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Arts and Entertainment
Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Arts and Entertainment Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Arts and Entertainment
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Arts and Entertainment When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Arts and Entertainment
