I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Arts and Entertainment Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud 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 "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Arts and Entertainment "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos 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
"Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Arts and Entertainment To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Arts and Entertainment
"Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Arts and Entertainment Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Arts and Entertainment
Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Arts and Entertainment "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli 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 "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Arts and Entertainment Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Arts and Entertainment
A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Arts and Entertainment Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Arts and Entertainment
"I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Arts and Entertainment The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Arts and Entertainment
"Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Arts and Entertainment
"The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Arts and Entertainment He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Arts and Entertainment
It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Arts and Entertainment "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Arts and Entertainment
