Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Society and Culture Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Society and Culture
"When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Society and Culture Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca 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
"To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Society and Culture "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Society and Culture
A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Marriage is a rest period between romances. Society and Culture We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Society and Culture
Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna "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 believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Society and Culture Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Society and Culture
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Society and Culture "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Society and Culture
"You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Society and Culture Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture
"... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Society and Culture Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Society and Culture
"In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Society and Culture "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Society and Culture
"I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Society and Culture Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Society and Culture
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Society and Culture I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
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