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I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Society and Culture The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Society and Culture
He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Society and Culture Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture
I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Society and Culture If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture
Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Society and Culture "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Society and Culture
Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland 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 Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Society and Culture Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Society and Culture
I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis "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) Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Society and Culture Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) 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 Society and Culture
The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Society and Culture Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture
"It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Society and Culture Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Society and Culture
"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H 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 Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Society and Culture I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Society and Culture Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Society and Culture
"You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) "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, There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Society and Culture Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Society and Culture
