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One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Cinema "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Cinema
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Cinema Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Cinema
The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Cinema More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Cinema
"It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi 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 Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Cinema Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Cinema
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Cinema Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Cinema
"He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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, A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Cinema Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Cinema
"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Cinema If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Cinema
A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Cinema There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Cinema
"Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein Cinema As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Cinema
If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Cinema If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Cinema
Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. 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 We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Cinema Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Cinema
