"Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Arts and Entertainment I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
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Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Arts and Entertainment Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Arts and Entertainment
"Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Arts and Entertainment Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
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- Mahatma Gandhi Arts and Entertainment
I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain "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) There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Arts and Entertainment Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment
Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning 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 Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
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-- Wedding Toast Arts and Entertainment Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Arts and Entertainment
I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Arts and Entertainment Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment
When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Arts and Entertainment "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Arts and Entertainment
"Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Arts and Entertainment Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Arts and Entertainment
If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Arts and Entertainment
Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) "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 Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Arts and Entertainment
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 It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Arts and Entertainment I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
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