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Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Society and Culture The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Society and Culture
"College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Society and Culture 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 Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre 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 Society and Culture
In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens 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 She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Society and Culture For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow Society and Culture
I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Society and Culture If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Society and Culture
My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 "'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 "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Society and Culture Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Society and Culture
Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Society and Culture "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Society and Culture
"When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Society and Culture I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Society and Culture
Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Society and Culture A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Society and Culture
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Society and Culture All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Society and Culture
"I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Society and Culture We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone "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) Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Society and Culture
