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Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Society and Culture Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Society and Culture
I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge 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 "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Society and Culture Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Society and Culture
Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson "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) Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Society and Culture A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
"College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Society and Culture If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Society and Culture
"A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Society and Culture God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire 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 do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Society and Culture
"The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Society and Culture It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Society and Culture
"We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Society and Culture The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Society and Culture
If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce 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 If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright "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 Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Society and Culture
The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Society and Culture your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Society and Culture
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Society and Culture "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Society and Culture
In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa "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 "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Society and Culture If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
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