Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Society and Culture When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Society and Culture
Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Society and Culture Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Society and Culture
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Society and Culture I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Society and Culture
Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Society and Culture Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Society and Culture The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Society and Culture
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) 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 If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Society and Culture "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Society and Culture
Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) 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 Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Society and Culture "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture
To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Society and Culture "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Society and Culture
Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Society and Culture "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cĉsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Society and Culture
When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
"Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Society and Culture When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Society and Culture
For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Society and Culture Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be 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 Society and Culture
