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The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Arts and Entertainment 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 In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy 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 It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Arts and Entertainment True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Arts and Entertainment
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Arts and Entertainment The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Arts and Entertainment
Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Arts and Entertainment
There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Arts and Entertainment Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment
Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Arts and Entertainment
Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Arts and Entertainment We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Arts and Entertainment
Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D Arts and Entertainment A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) 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 Arts and Entertainment
My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry "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) Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Arts and Entertainment "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Arts and Entertainment
A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do 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 Arts and Entertainment The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Arts and Entertainment
"Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Arts and Entertainment Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Arts and Entertainment
