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One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Society and Culture You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Society and Culture
Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Society and Culture Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry Society and Culture
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Society and Culture A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Society and Culture
We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Society and Culture "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Society and Culture
There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor 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 "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Society and Culture Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Society and Culture
Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Society and Culture I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Society and Culture
When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Society and Culture
"Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Society and Culture "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Society and Culture
At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Society and Culture Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Society and Culture
"We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Society and Culture
"I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers "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) Society and Culture What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Society and Culture
