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-- George Bernard Shaw If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
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-- Essie Summers Society and Culture To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins 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
"A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Society and Culture "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Society and Culture
"It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Society and Culture If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
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If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
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-- Noel Coward Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
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-- Anon. You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Society and Culture My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Society and Culture
My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Society and Culture Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli 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 Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Society and Culture
There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Society and Culture "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Society and Culture
I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Society and Culture During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Society and Culture
The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Society and Culture Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Society and Culture
Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Society and Culture A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Society and Culture
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Society and Culture When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Society and Culture
