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True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Society and Culture Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Society and Culture
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Society and Culture Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Society and Culture
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Society and Culture After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Society and Culture
Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Society and Culture Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Society and Culture
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Society and Culture "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Society and Culture
"Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Society and Culture "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Society and Culture
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Society and Culture Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel 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) Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Society and Culture Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos 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) "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Society and Culture "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Society and Culture
"The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Society and Culture Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Society and Culture
One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Society and Culture "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Society and Culture
