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When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Arts and Entertainment As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Arts and Entertainment
Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Arts and Entertainment Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Arts and Entertainment
Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Arts and Entertainment
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 Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Arts and Entertainment There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment
"The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Arts and Entertainment The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
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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 We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Arts and Entertainment Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
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"I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Arts and Entertainment A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Arts and Entertainment
Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Arts and Entertainment Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Arts and Entertainment
You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Arts and Entertainment Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Arts and Entertainment
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock My other wife is beautiful. "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Arts and Entertainment Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Arts and Entertainment
"... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Arts and Entertainment Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
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