Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Society and Culture I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Society and Culture
Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Society and Culture Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Society and Culture
"The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Society and Culture The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Society and Culture
The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Society and Culture Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Society and Culture
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 Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Society and Culture "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Society and Culture
There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Society and Culture Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Society and Culture
Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Society and Culture Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Society and Culture
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Society and Culture I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Society and Culture
A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Society and Culture Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Society and Culture
"Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Society and Culture That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Society and Culture
"Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Society and Culture Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Society and Culture
