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You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Society and Culture
We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun "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) You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Society and Culture I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur 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 "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Society and Culture
Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Society and Culture "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Society and Culture
"One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Society and Culture Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Society and Culture
It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Society and Culture
"I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Society and Culture The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Society and Culture
Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Society and Culture If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara "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
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Society and Culture A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Society and Culture
A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Society and Culture "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 None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Society and Culture
Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Society and Culture 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.
-- Crowf I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Society and Culture
Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain "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, "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Society and Culture You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Society and Culture
