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Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Arts and Entertainment Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Arts and Entertainment
Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Arts and Entertainment Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) 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 Arts and Entertainment
Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Arts and Entertainment "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Arts and Entertainment
Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis 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, Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Arts and Entertainment "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay 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 To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Arts and Entertainment
"Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Arts and Entertainment
Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Arts and Entertainment The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Arts and Entertainment
"Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Arts and Entertainment It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Arts and Entertainment
Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Arts and Entertainment 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 People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Arts and Entertainment
"The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Arts and Entertainment A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Arts and Entertainment
Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Arts and Entertainment It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Arts and Entertainment
