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Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Society and Culture "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Society and Culture
"Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Society and Culture Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture
I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Society and Culture "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Society and Culture
We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Society and Culture To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Society and Culture
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Society and Culture Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Society and Culture
"Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Society and Culture Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Society and Culture
If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Society and Culture "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Society and Culture
"See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Society and Culture "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John 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 bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Society and Culture The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Society and Culture
If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman 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.
Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Society and Culture I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Society and Culture
A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Society and Culture
