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The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn 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 Society and Culture The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Society and Culture
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Society and Culture I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Society and Culture Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Society and Culture
"All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Society and Culture "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Society and Culture
Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes "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) I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Society and Culture "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter 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
Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Society and Culture
The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Society and Culture The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Society and Culture
"College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Society and Culture "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Society and Culture
Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Society and Culture "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Society and Culture
Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Society and Culture If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Society and Culture
"Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Society and Culture blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Society and Culture
