I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Religion I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Religion
If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Religion Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Religion
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Religion Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Religion
Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Religion Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Religion
The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Religion Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Religion
Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Religion When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Religion
Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Religion Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Religion
I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Religion "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, "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Religion
"Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Religion Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Religion
"I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Religion "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Religion
I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Religion The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
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