Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Marriage is a rest period between romances. Society and Culture The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink 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. By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Society and Culture This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Society and Culture
Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Society and Culture There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Society and Culture
"If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Society and Culture "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture
"Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Society and Culture A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Society and Culture
"I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Society and Culture Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Society and Culture
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Society and Culture "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Society and Culture
"A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Society and Culture "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux 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 marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Society and Culture In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Society and Culture
"Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Society and Culture It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Society and Culture
"Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Man and wife make one fool. One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Society and Culture You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Society and Culture
