UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Society and Culture Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Society and Culture
Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Society and Culture I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Society and Culture
The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Society and Culture "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Society and Culture
"Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Society and Culture There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Society and Culture
In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
"Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) 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 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 "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Society and Culture "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Society and Culture
And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Society and Culture "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha 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
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The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Society and Culture When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Society and Culture
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Society and Culture May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Society and Culture
Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Society and Culture There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Society and Culture
All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Society and Culture I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Society and Culture
