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The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Society and Culture There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 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 Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Society and Culture
In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Society and Culture For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Society and Culture
"The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Society and Culture "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Society and Culture
If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Society and Culture "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture
When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Society and Culture
The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Society and Culture 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 A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Society and Culture
Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Society and Culture What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Society and Culture
Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Society and Culture Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Society and Culture
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Society and Culture Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Society and Culture
The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Society and Culture ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words 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 Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Society and Culture
I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Society and Culture "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Society and Culture
