"Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Society and Culture It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Society and Culture
"If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Society and Culture The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Society and Culture
"I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Society and Culture A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Society and Culture
A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery 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 Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Society and Culture When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Society and Culture
The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Society and Culture The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Society and Culture
Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Society and Culture It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Society and Culture
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.
-- Crow "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Society and Culture Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture
Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Society and Culture I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Society and Culture
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Society and Culture "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Society and Culture
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Society and Culture When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Society and Culture
"If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) 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 The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
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