Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Society and Culture I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Society and Culture
What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Society and Culture Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
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A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Society and Culture It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos 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 The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Society and Culture Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Society and Culture
Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ 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 "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Society and Culture Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Society and Culture
"Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) 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 I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Society and Culture A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Society and Culture
"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Society and Culture The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Society and Culture
Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford 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 "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture
Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Society and Culture I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Society and Culture
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Society and Culture "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Society and Culture
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Society and Culture Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
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