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Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Society and Culture "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Society and Culture
The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) 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 Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Society and Culture "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Society and Culture
"Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Society and Culture Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Society and Culture
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 The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Society and Culture
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Society and Culture "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Society and Culture
Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) 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 any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Society and Culture
"If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Society and Culture It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture
"If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon 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 Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Society and Culture
The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Society and Culture [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley "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) Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Society and Culture
Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Society and Culture The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Society and Culture
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 Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Society and Culture Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Society and Culture
