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Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Arts and Entertainment
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Arts and Entertainment
True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Arts and Entertainment Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Arts and Entertainment
The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Arts and Entertainment The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Arts and Entertainment
Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Arts and Entertainment "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon 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 Arts and Entertainment
Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Arts and Entertainment Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Arts and Entertainment
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Arts and Entertainment "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment
blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Arts and Entertainment "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Arts and Entertainment
"What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Arts and Entertainment "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Arts and Entertainment
Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Arts and Entertainment If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Arts and Entertainment
"I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) 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 Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Arts and Entertainment Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment
