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Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Society and Culture
If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Society and Culture "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Society and Culture
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Society and Culture No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Society and Culture
Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Society and Culture
If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Society and Culture "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Society and Culture
Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Society and Culture Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Society and Culture
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Society and Culture Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Society and Culture
In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Society and Culture A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Society and Culture
A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Society and Culture Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Society and Culture
In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Society and Culture If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Society and Culture
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 "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Society and Culture Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Society and Culture
