No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Society and Culture I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Society and Culture
With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Society and Culture "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Society and Culture
I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Society and Culture It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Society and Culture
Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Society and Culture blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Society and Culture
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Society and Culture "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
"I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Society and Culture "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Society and Culture
Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Society and Culture The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Society and Culture
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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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 "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Society and Culture "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Society and Culture
Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Society and Culture If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
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