A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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) I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
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-- Kant, Immanuel Arts and Entertainment "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Arts and Entertainment
"I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Arts and Entertainment "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) "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) Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Arts and Entertainment
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Arts and Entertainment In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Arts and Entertainment
"A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Arts and Entertainment Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Arts and Entertainment
Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Arts and Entertainment Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Arts and Entertainment
This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Arts and Entertainment Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Arts and Entertainment
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Arts and Entertainment Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Arts and Entertainment
Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan "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) "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Arts and Entertainment Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Arts and Entertainment
"Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Arts and Entertainment He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Arts and Entertainment
Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Arts and Entertainment blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Arts and Entertainment
"I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Arts and Entertainment To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Arts and Entertainment
