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Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Society and Culture "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Society and Culture
An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Society and Culture "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Society and Culture
A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Society and Culture When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Society and Culture
Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Society and Culture Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Society and Culture
"I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Society and Culture The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Society and Culture
I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx 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 Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Society and Culture Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. 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 Society and Culture
Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Society and Culture The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Society and Culture
"To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Society and Culture
Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Society and Culture A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Society and Culture
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Society and Culture I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Society and Culture
"In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) 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 Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Society and Culture Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Society and Culture
