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I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Society and Culture "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "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) You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Society and Culture
Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Society and Culture The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Society and Culture
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Society and Culture In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Society and Culture
Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Society and Culture "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Society and Culture
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Society and Culture "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Society and Culture
Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius "Think off-center." (George Carlin) We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Society and Culture Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Society and Culture
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings 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 Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Society and Culture If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Society and Culture
"Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Society and Culture Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Society and Culture
The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Society and Culture "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Society and Culture
"I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Society and Culture 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 Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Society and Culture
I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Society and Culture We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Society and Culture
