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Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Society and Culture
There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Society and Culture "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "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) Society and Culture
"Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 "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, Society and Culture Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Society and Culture
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery 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 Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Society and Culture The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Society and Culture
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Society and Culture Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Society and Culture
The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Society and Culture Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Society and Culture
Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan 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 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 "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Society and Culture
In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Society and Culture Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Society and Culture
"Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Society and Culture Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Society and Culture
The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Society and Culture Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Society and Culture
"Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Society and Culture To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Society and Culture
