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"The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Society and Culture We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Society and Culture
I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) 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.
-- Anonymous "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Society and Culture I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President 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 "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Society and Culture
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Society and Culture
"God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Society and Culture A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Society and Culture
"If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Society and Culture Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Society and Culture
It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Society and Culture Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents 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. The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Society and Culture Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Society and Culture
"I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Society and Culture The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Society and Culture
Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Society and Culture
Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Society and Culture
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 Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Society and Culture For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Society and Culture
