I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Society and Culture There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Society and Culture
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will Society and Culture The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. 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
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Society and Culture "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Society and Culture
Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Society and Culture Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Society and Culture
Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Society and Culture There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Society and Culture
Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Society and Culture The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Society and Culture
An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Society and Culture Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Society and Culture
LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Society and Culture Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Society and Culture
It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Society and Culture One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Society and Culture
The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Society and Culture "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Society and Culture
I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back 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 He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Society and Culture If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Society and Culture
