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Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Society and Culture More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 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 Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Society and Culture
Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Society and Culture The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture
"Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Society and Culture History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Society and Culture
"The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Society and Culture Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Society and Culture
If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Society and Culture "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Society and Culture
There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law "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) Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Society and Culture My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Society and Culture
"A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Society and Culture "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Society and Culture
A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Society and Culture "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Society and Culture
A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Society and Culture Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Society and Culture
"Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Society and Culture Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) "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 Society and Culture
"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Society and Culture "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Society and Culture
