"Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Society and Culture They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
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-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
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The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Society and Culture "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Society and Culture
I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Society and Culture I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture
"You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Society and Culture There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
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In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Society and Culture I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Society and Culture
"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Society and Culture The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
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I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Society and Culture Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Society and Culture
"The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle 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 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 Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. 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 Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Society and Culture
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Society and Culture And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Society and Culture
It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil 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 A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
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