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When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle 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 Society and Culture "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Society and Culture
If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Society and Culture "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Society and Culture
Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Society and Culture If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Society and Culture
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Society and Culture When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth 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 Society and Culture
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Society and Culture Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Society and Culture
I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Society and Culture
The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Society and Culture In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Society and Culture
She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Society and Culture Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Society and Culture
The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous 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 A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Society and Culture "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture
I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Society and Culture You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Society and Culture
Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Society and Culture Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Society and Culture
