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There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Society and Culture [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Society and Culture
A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Society and Culture Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and Society and Culture
When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Society and Culture I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from 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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Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Society and Culture "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Society and Culture
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr "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) Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Society and Culture A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Society and Culture
"If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Society and Culture Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Society and Culture
A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Society and Culture Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Society and Culture
A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Society and Culture ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Society and Culture
Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all 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 We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Society and Culture "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) A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Society and Culture
Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Society and Culture There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture
Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Society and Culture I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture
