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If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson 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 "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Society and Culture
A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff "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) The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Society and Culture The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Society and Culture
"The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Society and Culture "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Society and Culture
Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Society and Culture Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Society and Culture
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Society and Culture I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Society and Culture
Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Society and Culture "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Society and Culture
Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. 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 "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Society and Culture One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell 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 A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Society and Culture
"To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J "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 The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Society and Culture
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Society and Culture The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Society and Culture
We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Society and Culture If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Society and Culture
This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Society and Culture The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Society and Culture
