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Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast "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 Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Society and Culture
If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Society and Culture It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
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There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words 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 The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Society and Culture A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Society and Culture
"Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Society and Culture
I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Society and Culture Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Society and Culture
Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle 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 Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Society and Culture
Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Society and Culture blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Society and Culture
Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Society and Culture "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) "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) "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 Society and Culture
"The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Society and Culture I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert "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
There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Society and Culture I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Society and Culture
And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Society and Culture
