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The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Society and Culture "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Society and Culture
There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Society and Culture I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Society and Culture
Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Society and Culture
"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." We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Society and Culture "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Society and Culture
Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Society and Culture "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Society and Culture
A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Society and Culture 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 "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Society and Culture
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Society and Culture A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Society and Culture
Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. 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 Society and Culture "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Society and Culture
"The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill 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) Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Society and Culture
"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Society and Culture Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Society and Culture
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Society and Culture Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard 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, Society and Culture
