I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Society and Culture
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Society and Culture
"Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Society and Culture Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. 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 Society and Culture
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Society and Culture As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Society and Culture
"There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Society and Culture I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Society and Culture
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di 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) In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Society and Culture "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Society and Culture
In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx 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 A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Society and Culture "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Society and Culture
Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin Society and Culture Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Society and Culture
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Society and Culture He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Society and Culture
There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Society and Culture blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Society and Culture
Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise "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 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 Society and Culture ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Society and Culture
