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"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) Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner 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 Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Society and Culture Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Society and Culture
"I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Society and Culture
You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow 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 Society and Culture The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Society and Culture
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Society and Culture A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Society and Culture
"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) "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Society and Culture There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Society and Culture Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Society and Culture
blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Society and Culture blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Society and Culture
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Society and Culture What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Society and Culture
I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Society and Culture The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Society and Culture
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla Society and Culture We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Society and Culture
Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Society and Culture Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Society and Culture
