"Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Arts and Entertainment Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Arts and Entertainment
"Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Arts and Entertainment The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Arts and Entertainment
People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Arts and Entertainment "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment
They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Arts and Entertainment "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Arts and Entertainment
If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Arts and Entertainment How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Arts and Entertainment
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Arts and Entertainment Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Arts and Entertainment
Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Arts and Entertainment "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Arts and Entertainment
I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins "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 Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Arts and Entertainment We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Arts and Entertainment
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 What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Arts and Entertainment Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Arts and Entertainment
The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Arts and Entertainment The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Arts and Entertainment
No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Arts and Entertainment In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Arts and Entertainment
