I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Society and Culture The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Society and Culture
We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Society and Culture "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Society and Culture
Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Society and Culture Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Society and Culture
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Society and Culture "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Society and Culture
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Society and Culture "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture
Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Society and Culture Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Society and Culture
When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Society and Culture There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Society and Culture
"Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Society and Culture I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Society and Culture
The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Society and Culture If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Society and Culture
Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous 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
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"We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Society and Culture History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
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