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Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Society and Culture
"Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Society and Culture Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Society and Culture
"How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Society and Culture Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Society and Culture
"... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) 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 Society and Culture Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Society and Culture
"Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Society and Culture In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Society and Culture
Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Society and Culture Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce 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 "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Society and Culture
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Society and Culture Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Society and Culture
We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Society and Culture Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Society and Culture
The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Society and Culture I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Society and Culture
You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Society and Culture Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Society and Culture
"The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Society and Culture Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
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