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When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Society and Culture I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Society and Culture
We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius 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 What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Society and Culture "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Society and Culture
Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Society and Culture "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Society and Culture
"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Society and Culture When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Society and Culture
I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "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) "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) 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 For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Society and Culture
Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Society and Culture "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Society and Culture
"I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl "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) Society and Culture It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Society and Culture
"Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Society and Culture It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Society and Culture
When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Society and Culture "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Society and Culture
The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Society and Culture I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Society and Culture
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Society and Culture No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Society and Culture
