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"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Society and Culture Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Society and Culture
You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Society and Culture It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Society and Culture
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Society and Culture There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Society and Culture
"No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Society and Culture Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe My other wife is beautiful. Society and Culture
Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Society and Culture Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Society and Culture
"Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Society and Culture Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Society and Culture
I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Society and Culture Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Society and Culture
I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Society and Culture Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Society and Culture
Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Society and Culture America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Society and Culture
Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce "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) Society and Culture "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Society and Culture
Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Society and Culture The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Society and Culture
