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The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau What's new? Most of my wife. Society and Culture People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
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"All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) 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 "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) In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Society and Culture Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Society and Culture
"Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Society and Culture "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Society and Culture
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Society and Culture In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Society and Culture
"If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Society and Culture The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Society and Culture
When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Society and Culture "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. "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
Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Society and Culture 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 "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Society and Culture
"A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Society and Culture If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) To teach is to learn twice.
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I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Society and Culture Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Society and Culture
"The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Society and Culture "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Society and Culture
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 Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that Society and Culture "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
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