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"When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Society and Culture If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison 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.
-- Crowf Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Society and Culture
Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Society and Culture
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf 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 The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Society and Culture "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Society and Culture
"Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Society and Culture There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa "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) Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Society and Culture
Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Society and Culture
"Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Society and Culture Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton 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 Society and Culture
"Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Society and Culture In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Society and Culture
Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Society and Culture A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Society and Culture Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs 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 Society and Culture
"Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Society and Culture "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Society and Culture
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Society and Culture He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Society and Culture
