All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. "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) Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Arts and Entertainment Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Arts and Entertainment
Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Arts and Entertainment Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Arts and Entertainment
"It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Arts and Entertainment He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Arts and Entertainment
"Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. 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 "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Arts and Entertainment
Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Arts and Entertainment The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Arts and Entertainment
Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Arts and Entertainment The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Arts and Entertainment
Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Arts and Entertainment "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Arts and Entertainment
"If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius 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 The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Arts and Entertainment "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Arts and Entertainment
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Arts and Entertainment "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Arts and Entertainment
Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Arts and Entertainment "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Arts and Entertainment
Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Arts and Entertainment Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Arts and Entertainment
