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For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Culture, Arts and Leisure The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Culture, Arts and Leisure
Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Culture, Arts and Leisure All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
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- Arthur Schopenhauer It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
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-- Damon Runyan "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Culture, Arts and Leisure
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 Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
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-- Wedding Toast Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
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-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Culture, Arts and Leisure Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Culture, Arts and Leisure
Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Culture, Arts and Leisure Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Culture, Arts and Leisure
Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Culture, Arts and Leisure What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Culture, Arts and Leisure
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
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-- General Douglas MacArthur Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Culture, Arts and Leisure 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 Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
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-- Aldous Huxley If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Culture, Arts and Leisure
"Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Culture, Arts and Leisure If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Culture, Arts and Leisure
"Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Culture, Arts and Leisure "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
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The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
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--John Simon Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Culture, Arts and Leisure
The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Culture, Arts and Leisure "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Culture, Arts and Leisure
I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Culture, Arts and Leisure Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Culture, Arts and Leisure
