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"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Society and Culture
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea 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 This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Society and Culture "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Society and Culture If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing "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 Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Society and Culture
Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Society and Culture the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Society and Culture
There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Society and Culture Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Society and Culture
"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Society and Culture Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Society and Culture
The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Society and Culture I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Society and Culture
If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Society and Culture Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Society and Culture
I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Society and Culture 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 Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Society and Culture
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings "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) When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Society and Culture "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) 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 Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good 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 Society and Culture You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Society and Culture
