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"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 When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Society and Culture It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Society and Culture
Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Society and Culture If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams 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 If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Society and Culture
Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Society and Culture "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Society and Culture
Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Society and Culture An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Society and Culture
The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Society and Culture "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Society and Culture
If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Society and Culture Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Society and Culture
If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner 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 If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Society and Culture Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Society and Culture
Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Society and Culture The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Society and Culture
Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Society and Culture Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset "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 I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture 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 To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Society and Culture
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 "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Society and Culture Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Society and Culture
