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May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Arts and Entertainment "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Arts and Entertainment
We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Arts and Entertainment A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Arts and Entertainment
To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Arts and Entertainment There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Arts and Entertainment
"The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Arts and Entertainment "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Arts and Entertainment
If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Arts and Entertainment I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Arts and Entertainment
Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Arts and Entertainment "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Arts and Entertainment
"Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Arts and Entertainment "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart "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) Arts and Entertainment
Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Arts and Entertainment "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Arts and Entertainment
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Arts and Entertainment "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Arts and Entertainment
The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Arts and Entertainment "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Arts and Entertainment
"Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Arts and Entertainment Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Arts and Entertainment
