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The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Arts and Entertainment I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Arts and Entertainment
The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Arts and Entertainment A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment
The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables 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 The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Arts and Entertainment Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Arts and Entertainment
Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Arts and Entertainment The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Arts and Entertainment
"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Arts and Entertainment your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Arts and Entertainment
War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Arts and Entertainment The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Arts and Entertainment
Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Arts and Entertainment "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Arts and Entertainment
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 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 A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Arts and Entertainment
When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Arts and Entertainment
The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Arts and Entertainment Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Arts and Entertainment
"Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Arts and Entertainment "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Arts and Entertainment
