I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
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-- Fred Astaire Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Arts and Entertainment Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Arts and Entertainment
"Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Arts and Entertainment There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Arts and Entertainment
To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
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-- Mao Tse-tung To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Arts and Entertainment
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
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-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Arts and Entertainment If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
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-- Katharine Hepburn To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Arts and Entertainment
Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
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-- Heywood Brown "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Arts and Entertainment If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
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Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Arts and Entertainment Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
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-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Arts and Entertainment
I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Arts and Entertainment The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Arts and Entertainment
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics Arts and Entertainment "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Arts and Entertainment
I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Arts and Entertainment If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Arts and Entertainment
Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
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-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Arts and Entertainment For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Arts and Entertainment
Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Arts and Entertainment "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
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