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The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Society and Culture Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Society and Culture
You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Society and Culture
"I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Society and Culture The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Society and Culture "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Society and Culture
Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Society and Culture Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Society and Culture
What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Society and Culture Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Society and Culture
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie Society and Culture "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Society and Culture
Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Society and Culture Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Society and Culture
We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Society and Culture "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Society and Culture
There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Society and Culture People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Society and Culture
When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Society and Culture "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
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