The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Arts and Entertainment It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Arts and Entertainment
"There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Arts and Entertainment Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
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Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Arts and Entertainment Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Arts and Entertainment
"One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Arts and Entertainment "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) "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Arts and Entertainment
"If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Arts and Entertainment Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Arts and Entertainment
"One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Arts and Entertainment "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Arts and Entertainment
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Arts and Entertainment The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Arts and Entertainment
The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Arts and Entertainment A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Arts and Entertainment
It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth 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 We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Arts and Entertainment Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment
All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Arts and Entertainment "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Arts and Entertainment
Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Arts and Entertainment "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Arts and Entertainment
