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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Society and Culture Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Society and Culture
"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Society and Culture Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Society and Culture
"You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Society and Culture It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Society and Culture
"No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Society and Culture Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Society and Culture
We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. 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 Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Society and Culture The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Society and Culture
"Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Society and Culture "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Society and Culture
Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop 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) Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Society and Culture
... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford 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 It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Society and Culture I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Society and Culture
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken 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 There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Society and Culture
"Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Society and Culture Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Society and Culture
You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton Society and Culture If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Society and Culture
