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I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Society and Culture I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha Society and Culture
Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Society and Culture Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran 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
Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Society and Culture Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Society and Culture
My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Society and Culture
Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy 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 Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Society and Culture
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Society and Culture They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Society and Culture
To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Society and Culture We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Society and Culture
Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Society and Culture A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller "Think off-center." (George Carlin) "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture
"In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Society and Culture Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Society and Culture
"Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Society and Culture "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Society and Culture
Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Society and Culture "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Society and Culture
