We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Arts and Entertainment I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
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That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Arts and Entertainment Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Arts and Entertainment
But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Arts and Entertainment You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Arts and Entertainment
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Arts and Entertainment When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Arts and Entertainment
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Arts and Entertainment Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Arts and Entertainment
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Arts and Entertainment "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment
Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Arts and Entertainment "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Arts and Entertainment
"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) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Arts and Entertainment Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm 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 Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Arts and Entertainment Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Arts and Entertainment
After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare 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 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 "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) Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley Arts and Entertainment "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Arts and Entertainment
You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin 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 If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Arts and Entertainment 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 We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
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