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The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Society and Culture I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Society and Culture
I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Society and Culture
Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Society and Culture Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture
"When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Society and Culture We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture
Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Society and Culture It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Society and Culture
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie Society and Culture "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Society and Culture
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Society and Culture "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Society and Culture
The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Society and Culture Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Society and Culture
The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) 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, Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Society and Culture You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Society and Culture
There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart "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) Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Society and Culture "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Society and Culture
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Society and Culture A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Society and Culture
