Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Arts and Entertainment Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Arts and Entertainment
"God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Arts and Entertainment Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Arts and Entertainment
The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Arts and Entertainment When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Arts and Entertainment
My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Arts and Entertainment There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
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-- H.L. Mencken Arts and Entertainment
"Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Arts and Entertainment Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Arts and Entertainment
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Arts and Entertainment
"When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla Arts and Entertainment We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides 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. Arts and Entertainment
Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Arts and Entertainment The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment
Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Arts and Entertainment "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Arts and Entertainment
Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Arts and Entertainment "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Arts and Entertainment
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Arts and Entertainment The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
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