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Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Society and Culture Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Society and Culture
Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville "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 Society and Culture "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Society and Culture
See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Society and Culture I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Society and Culture
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 However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday 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
Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Society and Culture Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Society and Culture
"Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Spinster: A bachelor's wife. I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Society and Culture "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Society and Culture
Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Society and Culture I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Society and Culture
Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Society and Culture "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Society and Culture
Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. 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 Society and Culture
A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Society and Culture The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin 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 Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Society and Culture Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Society and Culture
