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blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Society and Culture A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Society and Culture
Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Society and Culture "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Society and Culture
"People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Society and Culture Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Society and Culture
The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) 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 Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Society and Culture Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 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 "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Society and Culture
Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Society and Culture A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Society and Culture
"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Society and Culture What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Society and Culture
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Society and Culture
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Society and Culture "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Society and Culture
Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce "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) Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin "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) When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Society and Culture Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Society and Culture
A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh "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 We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Society and Culture You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik 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" Society and Culture
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Society and Culture "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Society and Culture
