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The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Society and Culture "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Society and Culture
"In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Society and Culture A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Society and Culture
The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Society and Culture Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Society and Culture
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Society and Culture By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Society and Culture
You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Spinster: A bachelor's wife. "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Society and Culture "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Society and Culture
She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) 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 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 Society and Culture The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Society and Culture
"In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Society and Culture Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Society and Culture
In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Society and Culture "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Society and Culture
The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha 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 "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Society and Culture Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Society and Culture
"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Society and Culture If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous 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 "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Society and Culture "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Society and Culture
