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"A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Arts and Entertainment Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Arts and Entertainment
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie 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 Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Arts and Entertainment To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Arts and Entertainment
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 "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) 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 Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Arts and Entertainment For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken "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 Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Arts and Entertainment
The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Arts and Entertainment Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment
Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence 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 He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Arts and Entertainment When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Arts and Entertainment
Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment
"To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Arts and Entertainment Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Arts and Entertainment
If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Arts and Entertainment
If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Arts and Entertainment I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Arts and Entertainment
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Arts and Entertainment 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 I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Arts and Entertainment
...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Arts and Entertainment "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Arts and Entertainment
