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"Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Society and Culture He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Society and Culture
Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Society and Culture It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Society and Culture
"In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Society and Culture You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Society and Culture
I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign Society and Culture This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Society and Culture
"Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Society and Culture You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Society and Culture
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Society and Culture
"Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Society and Culture "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture
If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Society and Culture The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Society and Culture
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Society and Culture He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Society and Culture
"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Society and Culture For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Society and Culture
"When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Society and Culture I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Society and Culture
