"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Arts and Entertainment Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Arts and Entertainment
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
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-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Arts and Entertainment
The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Arts and Entertainment
"Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is Arts and Entertainment "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner 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 Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Arts and Entertainment The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Arts and Entertainment
"Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Arts and Entertainment "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Arts and Entertainment
Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Arts and Entertainment Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Arts and Entertainment
"In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) 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.
-- Anonymous I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi "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 An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Arts and Entertainment
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
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My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Arts and Entertainment Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Arts and Entertainment
Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Arts and Entertainment A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
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