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I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain 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 No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster 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 Society and Culture He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 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 "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Society and Culture Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Society and Culture
Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Society and Culture
Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Society and Culture "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Society and Culture
I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Society and Culture "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Society and Culture
"The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Society and Culture We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Society and Culture
An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Society and Culture "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Society and Culture
Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Society and Culture You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Society and Culture
"If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed 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 "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Society and Culture If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Society and Culture
People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Society and Culture For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Society and Culture
Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Society and Culture Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Society and Culture
