One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
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-- Dale Carnegie Arts and Entertainment "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
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-- Dean Inge Arts and Entertainment
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
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-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Arts and Entertainment All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Arts and Entertainment
As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
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-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
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- Henry Louis Mencken We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Arts and Entertainment Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
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-- Ben Hecht Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
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-- John Steinbeck "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Arts and Entertainment
The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
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-- Rogers Arts and Entertainment A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Arts and Entertainment
Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy 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 eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Arts and Entertainment
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
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-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Arts and Entertainment I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
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-- Fr. Jerome Cummings 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 Arts and Entertainment
Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
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-- Dave Barry Arts and Entertainment It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
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Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs 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 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 Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Arts and Entertainment If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Arts and Entertainment
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words 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. 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
Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Arts and Entertainment
"The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Arts and Entertainment Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
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