Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Society and Culture
In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Society and Culture Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Society and Culture
I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Society and Culture "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) 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
"Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Society and Culture The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Society and Culture
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Society and Culture Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Society and Culture
We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Society and Culture Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Society and Culture
Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) 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) I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed 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.
-- Anne S Society and Culture
Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Society and Culture Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Society and Culture
"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Society and Culture "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Society and Culture
I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur 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 Society and Culture Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Society and Culture
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Society and Culture It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Society and Culture
