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"The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Society and Culture "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Society and Culture
"Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Society and Culture There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Society and Culture
"Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Society and Culture "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns 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 Society and Culture
Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Society and Culture Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks 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
"Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Society and Culture I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Society and Culture
Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human 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 Society and Culture "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) "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 Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Society and Culture
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle 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 Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Society and Culture "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 When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Society and Culture
When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Society and Culture They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Society and Culture
Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Society and Culture Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln 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 Society and Culture
"True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Society and Culture The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries 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 In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Society and Culture "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Society and Culture
