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Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Society and Culture "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) Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Society and Culture
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual Society and Culture "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Society and Culture
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Society and Culture In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Society and Culture
I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Society and Culture Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Society and Culture
Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Society and Culture The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 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 you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Society and Culture
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Society and Culture "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Society and Culture
"Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Society and Culture The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith 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 Society and Culture
"As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Society and Culture
Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words 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 Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Society and Culture All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Society and Culture
Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Society and Culture Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Society and Culture
Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. 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 The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Society and Culture "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Society and Culture
