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Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Society and Culture "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Society and Culture
Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke 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 Society and Culture If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture
"Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Society and Culture There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Society and Culture
Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Society and Culture Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Society and Culture
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Society and Culture There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
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"Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Society and Culture I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Society and Culture
"True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Society and Culture
The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington 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 "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Society and Culture "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Society and Culture
Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Society and Culture As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture
Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Society and Culture I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Society and Culture
I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) 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 A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Society and Culture blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Society and Culture
