Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Society and Culture "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Society and Culture
blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) 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 Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Society and Culture If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Society and Culture
Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Society and Culture No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Society and Culture
Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Society and Culture
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Society and Culture The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Society and Culture
"The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Society and Culture Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Society and Culture
The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Society and Culture When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Society and Culture
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers 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 government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Society and Culture The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Society and Culture
Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Society and Culture
"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 Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Society and Culture
The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Society and Culture The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Society and Culture
