Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Society and Culture Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Society and Culture
The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Society and Culture "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Society and Culture
He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Society and Culture "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 "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) "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 Society and Culture
In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th "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 I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Society and Culture Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Society and Culture
The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Society and Culture Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Society and Culture
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Society and Culture If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Society and Culture
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Society and Culture "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Society and Culture
Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Society and Culture The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Society and Culture
When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Society and Culture Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Society and Culture
The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Society and Culture See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Society and Culture
blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Society and Culture Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
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