"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) I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Arts and Entertainment Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Arts and Entertainment
"Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Arts and Entertainment I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup 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 There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Arts and Entertainment
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Arts and Entertainment "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Arts and Entertainment
"The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Arts and Entertainment I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Arts and Entertainment
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Arts and Entertainment Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment
A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Arts and Entertainment "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Arts and Entertainment
"I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Arts and Entertainment The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Arts and Entertainment
"I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Arts and Entertainment Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Arts and Entertainment
There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Arts and Entertainment "Think off-center." (George Carlin) "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Arts and Entertainment
Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Arts and Entertainment A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Arts and Entertainment
That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Arts and Entertainment Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham 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) "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Arts and Entertainment
