The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Society and Culture Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Society and Culture
The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Society and Culture We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Society and Culture
No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Society and Culture
Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Society and Culture "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Society and Culture
Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Society and Culture I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Society and Culture
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Society and Culture No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Society and Culture
He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Society and Culture Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Society and Culture
I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Society and Culture 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 Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 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 Society and Culture
"I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Society and Culture If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Society and Culture
Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Society and Culture
If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Society and Culture When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Society and Culture
