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They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Society and Culture "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Society and Culture
"The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Society and Culture Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James 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 He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Society and Culture Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture
There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Society and Culture
"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Society and Culture Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Society and Culture My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Society and Culture
A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Society and Culture
"Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Society and Culture Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Society and Culture
"Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Society and Culture The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Society and Culture
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol 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 Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Society and Culture My other wife is beautiful. Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Society and Culture
Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Society and Culture Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton "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) Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Society and Culture
