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Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Society and Culture They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Society and Culture
"We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Society and Culture "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Society and Culture
They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Society and Culture It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
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"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) Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Society and Culture For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Society and Culture
blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Society and Culture "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Society and Culture
English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Society and Culture "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Society and Culture
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Society and Culture Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Society and Culture
"Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Society and Culture Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Society and Culture
If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Society and Culture God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett "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) "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Society and Culture
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Society and Culture "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Society and Culture
Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Society and Culture Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
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