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Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung 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 Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Arts and Entertainment "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Arts and Entertainment
There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Arts and Entertainment There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Arts and Entertainment
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Arts and Entertainment Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Arts and Entertainment
"Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Arts and Entertainment There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Arts and Entertainment
"Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Arts and Entertainment If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Arts and Entertainment
"Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Arts and Entertainment "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Arts and Entertainment
"Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Arts and Entertainment "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Arts and Entertainment
May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Arts and Entertainment There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Arts and Entertainment
The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Arts and Entertainment In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Arts and Entertainment
No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Arts and Entertainment The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Arts and Entertainment
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Arts and Entertainment
