Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates 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 Society and Culture The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Society and Culture
"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, All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Society and Culture Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Society and Culture
"A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Society and Culture "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture
My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Society and Culture Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Society and Culture
"Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Society and Culture The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Society and Culture
I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Society and Culture "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Society and Culture
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Society and Culture "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Society and Culture
No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Society and Culture Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Society and Culture
The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Society and Culture "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Society and Culture
I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy 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 I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Society and Culture Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Society and Culture
"That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Society and Culture "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture
