A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Society and Culture Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Society and Culture
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Society and Culture Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Society and Culture
Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Society and Culture Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Society and Culture
"Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous 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 Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Society and Culture "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Society and Culture
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) "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) It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Society and Culture We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Society and Culture
"Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Society and Culture "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Society and Culture
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Society and Culture Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Society and Culture
"Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Society and Culture Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Society and Culture
There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Society and Culture Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Society and Culture
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Society and Culture Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Society and Culture
There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Society and Culture The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Society and Culture
