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blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Society and Culture I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Society and Culture
The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Society and Culture A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Society and Culture
Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Society and Culture The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Society and Culture
In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley 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. Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Society and Culture I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Society and Culture
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Society and Culture "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Society and Culture
"I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa 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 I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Society and Culture You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Society and Culture
Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words 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) Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Society and Culture
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Society and Culture For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Society and Culture
blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "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) Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Society and Culture Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson 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 One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Society and Culture
Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Society and Culture Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Society and Culture
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Society and Culture "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Society and Culture
