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It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Society and Culture If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Society and Culture
Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Society and Culture "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Society and Culture
Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Society and Culture Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg 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 I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Society and Culture blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Society and Culture
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln "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 "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Society and Culture And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Society and Culture
Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Society and Culture Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Society and Culture
blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) 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 Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
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During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Marriage is a rest period between romances. All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Society and Culture The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Society and Culture
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein 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 Society and Culture If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Society and Culture
Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Society and Culture He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Society and Culture
