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"A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Society and Culture "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th "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 Wilhelm Nietzsche) Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Society and Culture
Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Society and Culture "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Society and Culture
"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Society and Culture Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Society and Culture
Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Society and Culture You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Society and Culture
"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Society and Culture What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Society and Culture
Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Society and Culture I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Society and Culture
Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone 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 If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Society and Culture
In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Society and Culture Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde 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 The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Society and Culture
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Society and Culture In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Society and Culture
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei 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 And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe 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, Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer 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 Society and Culture
"The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Society and Culture Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Society and Culture
