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He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Society and Culture The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Society and Culture
"Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Society and Culture
"O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Society and Culture "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Society and Culture
I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Society and Culture "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Society and Culture
Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Society and Culture Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Society and Culture
"Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall Society and Culture A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff 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 Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Society and Culture
Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Society and Culture When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Society and Culture
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells "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 would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Society and Culture "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) 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
"Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Society and Culture "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Society and Culture
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Society and Culture "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Society and Culture
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Society and Culture The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Society and Culture
