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-- Gilda Radner "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Society and Culture There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Society and Culture
Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley 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 Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Society and Culture
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Society and Culture Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Use your own best judgment at all times.
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"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Society and Culture Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Society and Culture
The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Society and Culture After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Society and Culture
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" "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 Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Society and Culture Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Society and Culture
To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Society and Culture "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Society and Culture
Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Society and Culture If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Society and Culture
"The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Society and Culture Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture
Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Society and Culture 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 "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Society and Culture
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman "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) We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Society and Culture There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Society and Culture
