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By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz 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 Government If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Government
"Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Government I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Man and wife make one fool. "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) Government
Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Government Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Government
Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Government Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Government
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Government "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) "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 Government
You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Government "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Government
Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Government Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Government
In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln 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. Government Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Government
A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau 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 The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Government "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Government
The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Government The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Government
Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre "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) War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Government Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Government
