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We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Society and Culture Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Society and Culture
If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Society and Culture "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Society and Culture
I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Society and Culture Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Society and Culture
blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Society and Culture The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Society and Culture
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Society and Culture Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Society and Culture
"Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Society and Culture There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "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 "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Society and Culture Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Society and Culture
What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Society and Culture A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers "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
"Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Society and Culture
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe 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 Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Society and Culture In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
"And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to "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) Society and Culture
Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Society and Culture "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) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Society and Culture
