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Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Society and Culture "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Society and Culture
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Society and Culture If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Society and Culture
Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Society and Culture My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous 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) To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard 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 "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Society and Culture "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George 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 It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture
Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Society and Culture Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture
Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Society and Culture We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Society and Culture
"Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain 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 Society and Culture Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Society and Culture
We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln 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 Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) 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 things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
"If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Society and Culture 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 I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde "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) Society and Culture
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. 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 It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Society and Culture One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Society and Culture
"One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Society and Culture No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
