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If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Society and Culture
Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will Society and Culture 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 "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Society and Culture
Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Society and Culture 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 If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Society and Culture
When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) 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 If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Society and Culture A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Society and Culture
The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Society and Culture
A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards "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) Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Society and Culture Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Society and Culture
The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Society and Culture The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Society and Culture
The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Society and Culture A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Society and Culture
To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, 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 A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Society and Culture If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Society and Culture
We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Society and Culture Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Society and Culture
Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Society and Culture Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Society and Culture
