Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Society and Culture "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Society and Culture
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Society and Culture In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Society and Culture
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Society and Culture 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 "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Society and Culture
Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Society and Culture The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
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-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Society and Culture
Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Society and Culture Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Society and Culture
Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Society and Culture Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Society and Culture
And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Society and Culture I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Society and Culture When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Society and Culture
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 Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Society and Culture Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder 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
"Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. 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 Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous My other wife is beautiful. Society and Culture As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Society and Culture
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Society and Culture The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
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