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- Henry David Thoreau If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Arts and Entertainment If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment
Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst 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 Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Arts and Entertainment I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment
"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Arts and Entertainment "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Arts and Entertainment
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Arts and Entertainment
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Arts and Entertainment 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 A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Arts and Entertainment
I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Arts and Entertainment 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 The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment
"One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Arts and Entertainment Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Arts and Entertainment
Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu "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) The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Arts and Entertainment Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment
Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Arts and Entertainment Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Arts and Entertainment
Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Arts and Entertainment Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers "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) If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Arts and Entertainment
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Arts and Entertainment A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Arts and Entertainment
