I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
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-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
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Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Arts and Entertainment The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Arts and Entertainment
Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Arts and Entertainment The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
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"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) The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch 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 Unha A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
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-- John Stuart Mill A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Arts and Entertainment
The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
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-- John Barrymore - last words Arts and Entertainment Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
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- Martin Luther King Jr. 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 I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Arts and Entertainment cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
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-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
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You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
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this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Arts and Entertainment The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Arts and Entertainment
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Arts and Entertainment The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Arts and Entertainment
Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Arts and Entertainment Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
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Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Arts and Entertainment "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) 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,
Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Arts and Entertainment
In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Arts and Entertainment Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
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