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Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Society and Culture 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 Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Society and Culture
In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Society and Culture The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Society and Culture
"Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg "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) The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Society and Culture Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Society and Culture
He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Society and Culture 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 To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Society and Culture
Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Society and Culture Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Society and Culture
If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) 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 A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Society and Culture
Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Society and Culture Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Society and Culture
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Society and Culture As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Society and Culture
She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Society and Culture I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Society and Culture
"I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Society and Culture I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Society and Culture
Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Society and Culture Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Society and Culture
