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I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Society and Culture In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Society and Culture
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Society and Culture Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Society and Culture
"The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Society and Culture Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Society and Culture
"Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Society and Culture Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Society and Culture
"Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Society and Culture "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Society and Culture
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Society and Culture I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to "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, ignorance, g 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 Society and Culture
We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Society and Culture A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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
I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero "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 To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H 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 Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Society and Culture
Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Society and Culture Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture
"No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Society and Culture They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Society and Culture
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Society and Culture "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) May you never leave your marriage alive. The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Society and Culture
