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He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Society and Culture In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Society and Culture
"Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Society and Culture "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Society and Culture
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck "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) "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Society and Culture You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Society and Culture
When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein 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 "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Society and Culture The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Society and Culture
Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Society and Culture "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) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Society and Culture
You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Society and Culture The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman 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 Society and Culture
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Society and Culture Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Society and Culture
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Society and Culture "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Society and Culture
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Society and Culture In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung 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 Society and Culture
War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Society and Culture Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Society and Culture
It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Society and Culture Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Society and Culture
