Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal 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 "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Society and Culture I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Society and Culture
Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Society and Culture "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Society and Culture
We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein 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 "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Society and Culture Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Society and Culture
It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Society and Culture "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Society and Culture
We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Society and Culture Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Society and Culture
Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Society and Culture Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Society and Culture
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Society and Culture
What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell 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 It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Society and Culture
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 I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Society and Culture What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Society and Culture
Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) 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 "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Society and Culture Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Society and Culture
"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) When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Society and Culture
