If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Cinema Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Cinema
"Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Cinema "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "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 Cinema
The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Cinema In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Cinema
"The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Cinema The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Cinema
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 "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Cinema "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Cinema
Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik 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 "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Cinema I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Cinema
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Cinema Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Cinema
My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Cinema Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Cinema
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Cinema Man and wife make one fool. Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Cinema
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Cinema Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Cinema
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Cinema I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Cinema
