Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Society and Culture Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Society and Culture
The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer 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 "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Society and Culture
The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Society and Culture I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Society and Culture
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Society and Culture The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Society and Culture
Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous "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." "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Society and Culture Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Society and Culture
Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville "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) When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Society and Culture Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Society and Culture
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Society and Culture Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Society and Culture
Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Society and Culture You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Society and Culture
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) 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 The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Society and Culture The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Society and Culture
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit 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 Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Society and Culture "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Society and Culture
"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture Spinster: A bachelor's wife. "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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