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The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Society and Culture Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte 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 Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Society and Culture
The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Society and Culture Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Society and Culture
"Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Society and Culture Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Society and Culture
My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Society and Culture The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Society and Culture
Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Society and Culture To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Society and Culture
"The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Society and Culture The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Society and Culture
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Society and Culture "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Society and Culture
People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Society and Culture The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Society and Culture
I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Society and Culture Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Society and Culture Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Society and Culture
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 We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Society and Culture Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Society and Culture
