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Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture
I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. "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 The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Society and Culture "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Society and Culture
Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Society and Culture
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Society and Culture "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Society and Culture
"Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Society and Culture "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Society and Culture
When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Society and Culture The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Society and Culture
"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Society and Culture Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Society and Culture
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev 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 Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Society and Culture The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Society and Culture
He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Society and Culture Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham "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) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Society and Culture
Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Society and Culture The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture
Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Society and Culture We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh 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 Society and Culture
