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Web Posted January 28, 2012

'If you have a library and a garden you have everything you need.'

Marcus Tullius Cicero

 

 

Web Posted January 5, 2012

'Treat everyone the same until you find out they're an idiot.'

Lucy Lawless

 

 

Web Posted December 15, 2011

'The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings while the inherent vise of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.'

Winston Churchill

 

 

Web Posted November 28, 2011

'Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of the power that holds it hostage.'

Adrienne Rich

 

 

Web Posted November 13, 2011

'Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness.'

Mark Twain

 

 

Web Posted August 13, 2011

'Climate is what you expect. Weather is what you get.'

   Anonymous

 

 

Web Posted August 3, 2011

'Money, it turns out, is a lot like sex. You think of nothing else when you don't have it and other things when you do.'

        James Baldwin

 

 

Web Posted July 21, 2011

'The biggest surprise in a man's life is old age.'

      Leo Tolstoy

 

 

Web Posted July 2, 2011

'The best acting takes place in confined spaces.'

              Gene Hackman

 

 

Web Posted June 11, 2011

'Never show your top. Once they've seen your top they'll know you have no place else to go.'

              Ricardo Montalban

 

 

Web Posted May 12, 2011

'Oh to be young, and to feel loves keen sting.'

              Albus Dumbledore

 

 

Web Posted April 3, 2011

'It's hard to kiss the lips at night that chew your ass out all day long.'

Vince Gill

 

 

Web Posted March 24, 2011

'I have to think hard to name an interesting man who does not drink.'

           Richard Burton

 

 

Web Posted February 8, 2011

'Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different.'

   Oprah      

 

 

Web Posted January 11, 2011

'The large type giveth and the small type taketh away.'

                Talk of the Nation

 

 

Web Posted January 3, 2011

'Play it like you don't know how to play the guitar.'

                               Miles Davis (to John Mclaughlin)

 

 

Web Posted December 29, 2010

'Do not follow a path. Make your own path and leave a trail.'

Emerson

 

 

Web Posted December 21, 2010

'A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is still putting on its' pants.'

Joseph Cooper

 

 

Web Posted November 23, 2010

'Great minds are always feared by lesser ones.'

                        the Lost Symbol (Dan Brown)

 

 

Web Posted November 18, 2010

'If you label me, you negate me.'

     Kierkegaard         

 

 

Web Posted September 14, 2010

'No rain, no rainbows.'

Unknown        

 

 

Web Posted June 22, 2010

'It isn't the story that matters as much as how you tell it.'

One Busy Guy

 

 

Web Posted June 18, 2010

'There is no plausible way to disprove a negative.'

 One Busy Guy

 

 

Web Posted May 14, 2010

'Perspective, the most important attribute.'

Unknown      

 

 

Web Posted April 7,  2010

'A sense of humor is the knife you use to cut through the wilderness of despair.'

    Tracy Morgan

 

 

Web Posted February 12, 2010

'A true friend stabs you in the front.'

   Oscar Wilde

 

 

Web Posted December 25,  2009

'Life is a series of challenges to be met and mastered.'

             Private Benjamin

 

 

Web Posted December 2,  2009

'You are what you think you are.'

Buddha  

 

 

Web Posted November 27,  2009

'Art thrives on restriction.'

                                 Nicholas Meyer (Director)

 

 

Web Posted November 21,  2009

'Where ignorance is bliss 'tis folly to be wise.'

                        Freedom of the Seas

 

 

Web Posted November 1,  2009

'Knowledge is Power. Power Corrupts. Study Hard. Be Evil.'

T Shirt

 

 

Web Posted September 18,  2009

'It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.'

Kafka

 

 

Web Posted June 6,  2009

'There is no coming to consciousness without pain.'

       Carl Jung

 

 

Web Posted May 3,  2009

'It's easier to stay in shape than to get in shape.'

                  Actor Will Smith

 

 

Web Posted April 29,  2009

'Happy wife, happy life.'

                Actor Hugh Jackman

 

 

Web Posted April 15,  2009

'I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.'

 Ian Fleming      

 

 

Web Posted March 3,  2009

'Not all dreamers achieve, but all achievers dream.'

Old Saying      

 

 

Web Posted March 1,  2009

'Lighthouses are more useful than churches.'

Ben Franklin   

 

 

Web Posted February 27,  2009

'Two things you never want to see being made: laws and sausages.'

Mark Twain     

 

 

Web Posted February 7,  2009

'To have a friend you must also be one.'

Emerson          

 

 

Web Posted January 17,  2009

'I never forget a face, but in your case I'm going to make an exception.'

 Groucho Marx

 

 

Web Posted January 6,  2009

'Fatigue breeds fatigue, exertion breeds energy.' 

Bonnie Hunt

 

 

Web Posted October 27,  2008

'Be scared when everyone else is greedy, be greedy when everyone else is scared.'

   Warren Buffett

 

 

Web Posted September 25,  2008

'Being shot out of a cannon is always better than being squeezed through a tube.'

              Hunter S. Thompson

 

 

Web Posted September 10,  2008

'The stone age didn't end because we ran out of stone...'

                            Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani

 

 

Web Posted September 1,  2008

'Speak low, talk slow and don't say too much.'

    John Wayne

 

 

Web Posted August 23, 2008

'If you're going to fall off a ladder... fall off a high one.'

                  Leonard Bernstein

 

 

Web Posted July 20, 2008

'It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.' 

   Mark Twain

 

 

Web Posted June 3, 2008

'Happiness is only real when shared.'

      Into The Wild

 

 

Web Posted May 27, 2008

'The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.'

             Winston Churchill

 

 

Web Posted May 13, 2008

'God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood 
supply to run both at the same time.'

        Robin Williams

 

 

Web Posted April 18, 2008

'Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.'  

Napoleon

 

 

Web Posted March 29, 2008

'Doing business with your enemies is inevitable.'

               Hollywood Adage

 

 

Web Posted January 27, 2008

'In a modern economy the money is made by people with money, not by people who labor.'

Bill Clinton

 

 

Web Posted January 25, 2008

'The path of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.'

    Jim Morrison

 

 

Web Posted January 8, 2008

'If a politician thought cannibals were among his constituents, he'd promise them missionaries for breakfast.'

     H.L. Mencken

 

 

Web Posted December 29, 2007

'Acting is pretending that you're not pretending when you're actually pretending.'

   Ted Danson

 

 

Web Posted November 8, 2007

'Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.'

  Carl Sagan

 

 

Web Posted October 5, 2007

'The deepest hunger in humans is the desire to be appreciated.'

          William James

 

 

Web Posted September 18, 2007

'Human beings are the only creatures
that allow their children to come back home.'

    Bill Cosby

 

 

Web Posted September 2, 2007

'Be who you are and say what you feel because those who matter don't mind and those who mind don't matter.'  

     Dr. Seuss

 


Web Posted August 25, 2007

'Mankind is a thing to be surpassed.' 

                      Frederick Nietzsche

 

 

Web Posted July 10, 2007

'No man can sincerely help another without also helping himself.'

                          Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

 

Web Posted June 4, 2007

'Imagination is more important than knowledge.'

             Albert Einstein

 

 

Web Posted May 13, 2007

'Nothing Matters.'

                                   Louis B. Mayer (final words 1973)

 

 

Web Posted April 27, 2007

'Good Artists Copy. Great Artists Steal.'

  Picasso

 

 

Web Posted April 16, 2007

'Never apologize, never explain.'

        Henry Ford

 

 

Web Posted March 14, 2007

'A culture is only as great as its' dreams, and its' dreams are dreamed by artists.'

                  L. Ron Hubbard

 

 

Web Posted February 25, 2007

'The only exercise I take is following the coffins of friends who took exercise.'

              Peter O'Toole

 

 

Web Posted February 1, 2007

'The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right name.'

                   Chinese Proverb

 

 

Web Posted January 19, 2007

'You must be the world you wish to change.'

                      Mahatma Ghandi

 

 

Web Posted December 28, 2006

'Lust will make a fool of a man, but it is only love that can truly ruin him.'

                       William Lashner

 

 

Web Posted October 22, 2006

'Character is destiny.'

                  Anonymous

 

 

Web Posted September 12, 2006

'I was never able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.'

                  Mark Twain

 

 

Web Posted August 28, 2006

'Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.'

                Doris Day

 

 

Web Posted August 21, 2006

'I don't get ulcers, I give them.'

                        David Sarnoff

 

 

Web Posted August 18, 2006

'At 50 you get the face you deserve!'

                           George Orwell

 

 

Web Posted August 16, 2006

          'Si Non Occillas Noli Tintinnare.'                (If you don't swing, don't ring!)

                                       Playboy Mansion (plaque)

 

 

Web Posted August 2, 2006

'Artists use lies to tell the truth. Politicians use lies to cover it up.'

                             V for Vendetta

 

 

Web Posted July 18, 2006

'Everything you see I owe to spaghetti!'

                             Sophia Loren

 

 

Web Posted July 11, 2006

'War is old men talking and young men dying.'

                       Odysseus

 

 

Web Posted July 1, 2006

'Money follows, it does not lead.'

                                                    Bob Gilbert (CEO Quicken Loans)

 

 

Web Posted June 1, 2006

'A word to the wise ain't necessary -- it's the stupid ones who need the advice.'

                        Bill Cosby

 

 

Web Posted May  31, 2006

'Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.'

                             Woody Allen

 

 

Web Posted May  15, 2006

'It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.'

                               H.L. Mencken

 

 

Web Posted April 24, 2006

'What is history but a fable agreed upon?'

                       Napoleon

 

 

Web Posted April 16, 2006

'You can't wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club.'

                            Jack London

 

 

Web Posted March 6, 2006

       'What nourishes me, destroys me.'                             (Quod me nutrit me destruit)

                                            Angelina Jolie (a tattoo)

 

 

Web Posted February 16, 2006

'A society that sacrifices privacy for security shall have neither.'

                             Ben Franklin

 

 

Web Posted February 1, 2006

'Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combination.'

                                                Gene Roddenberry (IDIF)

 

 

Web Posted January 20, 2006

'Comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.'

                                                          H. L. Mencken (on broadcast news)

 

 

Web Posted December 24, 2005

'I dream for a living.'

                                    Steven Spielberg

 

 

Web Posted December 2, 2005

'The heart that gives... gathers.'

                                          Old English Proverb

 

 

Web Posted November 28, 2005

'Try not. Do or do not there is no try.'

                            Master Yoda

 

 

Web Posted November 22, 2005

'Brevity is the soul of wit.'

                                           William Shakespeare

 

 

Web Posted November 5, 2005

'Ambition is the last refuge of failure.'

                          Oscar Wilde

 

 

Web Posted October 8, 2005

'Life is not so short, but that there is always time enough for courtesy.'

                                              Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

 

Web Posted September 23, 2005

'Here's to the fools for without them the rest of us could not succeed!'

                            Mark Twain

 

 

Web Posted  September 1, 2005

'At 18 our convictions are hills from which we gaze. At 45 they are caves in which we hide.'

                                         F. Scott Fitzgerald

 

 

Web Posted  August 20, 2005

'Opportunity smiles on those who are prepared.'

                            Old Saying

 

 

Web Posted  August 1, 2005

'If there is a God, the phrase that would disgust Him most is... Holy Water.'

                            Steve Allen

 

 

Web Posted  June 30, 2005

'Keep a bottle of perfume and some breath strips next to your pepper spray and you're ready for anything!

                                     Jenny McCarthy

 

 

Web Posted  June 10, 2005

'People hear what they see.'

                              Sandra Dee

 

 

Web Posted  May 31, 2005

'Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense.'


                                                  
Steve Landsberg

 

 

Web Posted  May 16, 2005

'If you know exactly what you are going to do, why do it?'

                     Pablo Picasso

 

 

Web Posted  May 3, 2005

'History will be kind to me because I intend to write it.'

                                           Winston Churchill

 

 

Web Posted  April 15, 2005

'Hell is empty. All the devils are here.'

                                                 William Shakespeare

 

 

Web Posted  April 9, 2005

'If you think education is expensive try ignorance.'

                                         Bumper Sticker

 

 

Web Posted  April 2, 2005

'Consistency is a last refuge for the unimaginative.'

                                    Oscar Wilde

 

 

Web Posted  March 25, 2005

'Movies are the only thing you can sell and still own.'

                                          Louis B Mayer

 

 

Web Posted  March 18, 2005

'Even the smallest person can change the face of the future.'

                                              Galadriel (LOTR)

 

 

Web Posted  March 11, 2005

'They say when you get over the hill you go faster!'

                                           Quincy Jones

 

 

Web Posted  March 5, 2005

'Communism won't work because people like to own stuff.' 
                                                      Frank Zappa

 

 

Web Posted  February 28, 2005

'Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.'

                                           John Lennon

 

 

Web Posted  February 19, 2005

'I have the simplest of tastes. I am always satisfied with perfection.'

                                          Oscar Wilde

 

 

Web Posted  February 5, 2005

'Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug!'

                                           Jon Lithgow

 

 

Web Posted  January 23, 2005

'You know that you are over the hill when your mind makes a promise that your body can't fill.'

                                       Little Feat

 

 

Web Posted  January 13, 2005

'Anger is more useful than despair.'

                                               the Terminator

 

 

Web Posted  January 3, 2005

'A dollar is a vote.'

                                             Anonymous

 

 

Web Posted  December 20, 2004

'You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper in the world is a white guy, the best golfer in the world is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the USA of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war and the three most powerful men in America are named Bush, Dick and Colin!'

                                           Chris Rock

 

 

Web Posted  December 14, 2004

'Most of us are about as happy as we make up our minds to be.'

                                          Abe Lincoln

 

 

Web Posted December 3, 2004

'The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.'

                                                William James

 

 

Web posted November 28, 2004

'If you don't complain about your problems, they don't exist.'

                                            Dean Martin

 

 

Web posted October 18, 2004

'Just remember everyone, pain is temporary, film is forever!'

                                                Peter Jackson

 

 

Web posted October 8, 2004

'It isn't premarital sex if you have no intention of getting married.'

                                                George Burns

 

 

Web posted October 3, 2004

'Thanks to the interstate highway system, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.'

                                                Charles Kuralt

 

 

Web posted August 27, 2004

'To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism - to steal from many is
research.'

                                              Steven Wright

 

 

Web posted August 20, 2004

'Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.'

                                                                       Sir Laurence Olivier

 

 

Web posted August 4, 2004

'Only the mediocre can always be at their best.'

                                                H. L. Mencken

 

 

Web posted July 25, 2004

'Good fences make good neighbors.' 

                                           Robert Frost

 

 

 

Web posted July 19, 2004

'Those whom the gods would destroy they first make angry.'

                                                                Greek Adage (from Bill Clinton)

 

 

 

Web posted July 12, 2004

'The only thing I owe the public is a good performance.'

                                                  Humphrey Bogart

 

 

 

Web posted July 3, 2004

'It takes a long time to become young.'

                                               Pablo Picasso

 

 

 

Web posted June 22, 2004

'Give the hardest job to the laziest person and they'll find the easiest way to do it!'

                           Dad

 

 

 

Web posted June 10, 2004

'The unexamined life is not worth living.'

                             Plato

 

 

 

Web posted May 28, 2004

'We make war so that we may live in peace.'

                                  Aristotle

 

 

 

Web posted April 23, 2004

 'Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?'

(Who will guard the guards?)

                                                               From Satires of Juvenal

 

 

 

Web posted March 26, 2004

'Film is the only form of art whose raw materials are so expensive that the artist can not afford to purchase them for himself.'

                                                                  Charleton Heston

 

 

 

Web posted March 9, 2004

'Always choose your words carefully on the way up because you may have to eat them on the way down.'

                                                            Anonymous

 

 

 

Web posted March 5, 2004

'A man's reach should exceed his grasp, or else what's Heaven for?'

                                                                    Robert Browning

 

 

 

Web posted February 2,  2004

'Love of all living creatures is the most notable attribute of man.'

                                                      Charles Darwin

 

 

 

Web posted January 18,  2004

'After all is said and done, more has been said than done.'

                                                            Old Saying

 

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