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Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Society and Culture
If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous 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 My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Society and Culture "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Society and Culture
My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Society and Culture At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Society and Culture
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde "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) My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Society and Culture Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Society and Culture
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Society and Culture Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Society and Culture
Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Society and Culture I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Society and Culture
The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Society and Culture The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway 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 To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Society and Culture Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Society and Culture
Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Society and Culture What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Society and Culture
There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner 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 Society and Culture When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Society and Culture
"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Society and Culture They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
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