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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Arts and Entertainment Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith 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 "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Arts and Entertainment We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Arts and Entertainment
"We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Arts and Entertainment A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Arts and Entertainment
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Arts and Entertainment 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 "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Arts and Entertainment
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
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I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure 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 They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel 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 Arts and Entertainment The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Arts and Entertainment
How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Arts and Entertainment If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Arts and Entertainment
If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill 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 "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Arts and Entertainment
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 Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Arts and Entertainment You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry 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
of "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Arts and Entertainment
A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Arts and Entertainment Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Arts and Entertainment
>From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Arts and Entertainment The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
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