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Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Society and Culture "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Society and Culture
In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Society and Culture Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Society and Culture
We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Society and Culture Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Society and Culture
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Society and Culture I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Society and Culture
This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Society and Culture Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I 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
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Society and Culture It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Society and Culture
Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) "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) Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Society and Culture
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Society and Culture The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Society and Culture
Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Society and Culture "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Society and Culture
The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln 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 "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Society and Culture
The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Society and Culture "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Society and Culture
