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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne 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 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 Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Society and Culture Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture
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 A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Society and Culture Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Society and Culture
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Society and Culture Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Society and Culture
"Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Society and Culture Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal 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
Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Society and Culture When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Society and Culture
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Marriage is a rest period between romances. When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Society and Culture If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Society and Culture
Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Society and Culture I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen 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 If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Society and Culture
"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) Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Society and Culture The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Society and Culture
Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Society and Culture Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Society and Culture
And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Society and Culture The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Society and Culture
My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Society and Culture The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture
