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-- Sigmund Freud You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
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-- Olin Miller This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards 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 "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
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-- Wedding Toast The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Society and Culture If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Society and Culture
There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Society and Culture First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
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Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture
You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Society and Culture It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
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-- Oscar Wilde When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Society and Culture
A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Society and Culture 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 Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Society and Culture
"... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Society and Culture "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture
"Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Society and Culture Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Society and Culture
"I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Society and Culture There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) What's new? Most of my wife. Society and Culture
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 If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Society and Culture
There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Society and Culture "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Society and Culture
"If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Society and Culture We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Society and Culture
