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Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Arts and Entertainment "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Arts and Entertainment
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 A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Arts and Entertainment
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Arts and Entertainment If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Arts and Entertainment
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein 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 Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Arts and Entertainment
No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin 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 I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Arts and Entertainment
"Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Arts and Entertainment May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz 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 Arts and Entertainment
"I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Arts and Entertainment Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Arts and Entertainment
I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Arts and Entertainment I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Arts and Entertainment
Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper "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 Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Arts and Entertainment
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Arts and Entertainment "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Arts and Entertainment
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Arts and Entertainment Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Arts and Entertainment
