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When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Society and Culture By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Society and Culture
Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? 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 Society and Culture Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Society and Culture
I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor 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 Society and Culture The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Society and Culture
Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Society and Culture "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture
"Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Society and Culture "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
"Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Society and Culture I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Society and Culture
I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Society and Culture There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Society and Culture
Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Society and Culture Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker Society and Culture
The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Society and Culture "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Society and Culture To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Society and Culture
"We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Society and Culture
