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"This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Society and Culture We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
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-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Society and Culture
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Society and Culture "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
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-- Brendan Hills Society and Culture
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Society and Culture "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Society and Culture
Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
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can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Society and Culture My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. "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 Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Society and Culture
We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Society and Culture The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Society and Culture
"Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Society and Culture Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
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-- Mike Binder Society and Culture
"People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Society and Culture Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) The less their ability, the more their conceit.
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"That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Society and Culture Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
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not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Society and Culture
"Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Society and Culture Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Society and Culture
"A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Society and Culture Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Society and Culture
Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Society and Culture
