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Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Arts and Entertainment A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Arts and Entertainment
Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Arts and Entertainment The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Arts and Entertainment
"Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Arts and Entertainment Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Arts and Entertainment
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Arts and Entertainment You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Arts and Entertainment
Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Arts and Entertainment
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 I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Arts and Entertainment "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Arts and Entertainment
"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) I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Arts and Entertainment The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Arts and Entertainment
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Arts and Entertainment Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Arts and Entertainment
Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Arts and Entertainment Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Arts and Entertainment
I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cĉsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Arts and Entertainment "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Arts and Entertainment
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 still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod What's new? Most of my wife. 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 I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Arts and Entertainment The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Arts and Entertainment
