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In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Society and Culture A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein 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 "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Society and Culture Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Society and Culture
Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas May you never leave your marriage alive. Society and Culture Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Society and Culture
The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Society and Culture A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Society and Culture
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Society and Culture Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Society and Culture
When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Society and Culture Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Society and Culture
Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Society and Culture Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Society and Culture
"Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Society and Culture An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Society and Culture
If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Society and Culture
When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Society and Culture I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Society and Culture
You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Society and Culture "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Society and Culture
