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Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous 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 Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Society and Culture I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Society and Culture
Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Society and Culture "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Society and Culture
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Society and Culture "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Society and Culture
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Society and Culture
Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Society and Culture I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Society and Culture
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov 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 Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Society and Culture "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Society and Culture
Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Society and Culture "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Society and Culture
There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Society and Culture The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Society and Culture
"In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner 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 Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Society and Culture "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski 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
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "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) He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Society and Culture Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Society and Culture
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Society and Culture Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Society and Culture
