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Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Society and Culture "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Society and Culture
By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Society and Culture "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Society and Culture
My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Society and Culture I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Society and Culture
Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Society and Culture "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) 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 Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Society and Culture He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Society and Culture
"Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Society and Culture Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture
Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Society and Culture "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Society and Culture
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Society and Culture Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Society and Culture
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Society and Culture Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Society and Culture
If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Society and Culture "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Society and Culture
"In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Society and Culture You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Society and Culture
