Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
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-- Jean Cocteau Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
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-- Robert Orben "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Arts and Entertainment
"My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
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-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Arts and Entertainment If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
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You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Arts and Entertainment "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Arts and Entertainment Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
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Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Arts and Entertainment A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
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-- Sydney Smith Arts and Entertainment
Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Arts and Entertainment
Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Arts and Entertainment The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Love is friendship set on fire.
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When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Arts and Entertainment
Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Arts and Entertainment Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Arts and Entertainment
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 "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Arts and Entertainment "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k "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 ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Arts and Entertainment
Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. "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) I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Arts and Entertainment Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
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