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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron "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) Society and Culture Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Society and Culture
The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Society and Culture The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Society and Culture
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 Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Society and Culture It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Society and Culture
Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Society and Culture For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Society and Culture
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 There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Society and Culture your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture
He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Society and Culture Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. 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 Society and Culture
Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Society and Culture
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody "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 Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Society and Culture "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Society and Culture
The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Society and Culture Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Society and Culture
Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Society and Culture I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Society and Culture blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon My other wife is beautiful. Society and Culture
