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Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Society and Culture 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 Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Society and Culture
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Society and Culture Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Society and Culture
"A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Society and Culture "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Society and Culture
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Society and Culture "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Society and Culture
Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Society and Culture
Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Society and Culture Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Society and Culture
The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your Society and Culture Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Society and Culture
Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Society and Culture
"To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons "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 It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Society and Culture When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Society and Culture
"I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous 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 Society and Culture You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson 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 It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Society and Culture
There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Society and Culture
