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"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. 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 "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Society and Culture By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Society and Culture
Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Society and Culture I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Society and Culture
A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Society and Culture Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Society and Culture
Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Society and Culture Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Society and Culture
You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Society and Culture Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld 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 Society and Culture
"REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Society and Culture The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Society and Culture
... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
"Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Society and Culture The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture
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 "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Society and Culture
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Society and Culture We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Society and Culture
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) 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 Society and Culture "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Society and Culture
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Society and Culture Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Society and Culture
