I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Society and Culture Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Society and Culture
Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Society and Culture Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Society and Culture
Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Society and Culture "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Society and Culture
It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Society and Culture Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture
Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Society and Culture People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Society and Culture
"I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom My other wife is beautiful. Society and Culture Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner "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 Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Society and Culture
Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Society and Culture Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Society and Culture
And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Society and Culture "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Society and Culture
Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Society and Culture Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Society and Culture
With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Society and Culture In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Society and Culture
If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Society and Culture The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Society and Culture
