It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Society and Culture Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates 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
Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and Society and Culture "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Society and Culture
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Society and Culture If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince 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. Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Society and Culture
Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e 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.
My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton 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 "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Society and Culture
Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Society and Culture "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Society and Culture
Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Society and Culture
No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Society and Culture If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Society and Culture
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Society and Culture "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "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) There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Society and Culture
A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Society and Culture The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Society and Culture
"May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Society and Culture I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Society and Culture
"Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Society and Culture We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
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