Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) 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
married Society and Culture Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Society and Culture
He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Society and Culture I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Society and Culture
He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Society and Culture Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Society and Culture
Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Society and Culture "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Society and Culture
Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Society and Culture True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Society and Culture
"Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Society and Culture The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Society and Culture
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Society and Culture Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Society and Culture
"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Society and Culture "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Society and Culture
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Society and Culture Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Society and Culture
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Society and Culture The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Society and Culture
If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying "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) "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Society and Culture It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Society and Culture
