I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Dance "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Dance
Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Dance He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) 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
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But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Dance A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Dance
Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Dance "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Dance
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Dance What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Dance
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 The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Dance More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Dance
The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Dance All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Dance
I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Dance Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Dance
A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Dance Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Dance
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 What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Dance The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Dance
In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Dance He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Dance
