The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Arts and Entertainment Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Arts and Entertainment
The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf "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 "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Arts and Entertainment I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Arts and Entertainment
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Arts and Entertainment Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Arts and Entertainment
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 "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Arts and Entertainment Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V 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 The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Arts and Entertainment
For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Arts and Entertainment Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Arts and Entertainment
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Arts and Entertainment Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Arts and Entertainment
"People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Arts and Entertainment Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Arts and Entertainment
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie 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 Arts and Entertainment Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Arts and Entertainment
"I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Arts and Entertainment Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Arts and Entertainment
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual "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 In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Arts and Entertainment
"I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Arts and Entertainment In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Arts and Entertainment
