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I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher 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 Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Society and Culture In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Society and Culture
Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Society and Culture I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Society and Culture
Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Society and Culture
Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Society and Culture Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Society and Culture
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Society and Culture "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) Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Society and Culture
Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles 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 Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Society and Culture "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Society and Culture
"If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Society and Culture Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Society and Culture
Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. 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 My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Society and Culture
The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Society and Culture "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Society and Culture
A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Society and Culture Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Society and Culture
Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Society and Culture
