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In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Society and Culture Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
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"I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier 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 Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Society and Culture A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright 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 We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Society and Culture
To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Society and Culture Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Society and Culture
To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Society and Culture I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Society and Culture
"Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Society and Culture Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Society and Culture
Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac "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) Society and Culture Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture
He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Society and Culture We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Society and Culture
"To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Society and Culture My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Society and Culture Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Society and Culture
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Society and Culture You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Society and Culture
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Society and Culture I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Society and Culture
