No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show 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 Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Arts and Entertainment I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Arts and Entertainment
"Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Arts and Entertainment
Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Arts and Entertainment Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Arts and Entertainment
Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Arts and Entertainment Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Arts and Entertainment
Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Arts and Entertainment Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law "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 Arts and Entertainment
There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Arts and Entertainment "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Arts and Entertainment
Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Arts and Entertainment "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Arts and Entertainment If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Arts and Entertainment
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Arts and Entertainment A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. 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. -- Guitry In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Arts and Entertainment You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Arts and Entertainment
He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Arts and Entertainment Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Arts and Entertainment
