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I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Society and Culture When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Society and Culture
Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson 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 Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Society and Culture That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Society and Culture
I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker 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 woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Society and Culture "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Society and Culture
The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Society and Culture 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 Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Society and Culture
If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Society and Culture Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Society and Culture
"There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Society and Culture To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Society and Culture
"Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Society and Culture I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Society and Culture
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Society and Culture Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Society and Culture
The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Society and Culture I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Society and Culture
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Society and Culture Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Society and Culture
Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Society and Culture "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Society and Culture
