Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Society and Culture The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Society and Culture
"There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) 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 If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Society and Culture I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Society and Culture
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history "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." Society and Culture "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Society and Culture
My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor 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 Society and Culture The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries "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
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Society and Culture Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Society and Culture
If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) What's new? Most of my wife. Society and Culture If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Society and Culture
"Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Society and Culture If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) 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
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All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Society and Culture Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Society and Culture
"Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Society and Culture
"The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Society and Culture "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 "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Society and Culture
Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Society and Culture 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
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