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"I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff "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) Society and Culture Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Society and Culture
"When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Society and Culture Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Society and Culture
Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Society and Culture The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Society and Culture
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Society and Culture I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Society and Culture
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Society and Culture Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Society and Culture
I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Society and Culture Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley Society and Culture
Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner 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. 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 "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Society and Culture
The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Society and Culture
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Society and Culture To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel "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) Society and Culture
Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Society and Culture "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Society and Culture
"I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Society and Culture "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
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