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"The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Society and Culture "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) "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) blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Society and Culture
Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. "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) "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Society and Culture Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Society and Culture
"The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Society and Culture "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Society and Culture
I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Society and Culture "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Society and Culture
If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Society and Culture "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Society and Culture
"Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Society and Culture Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." "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
Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Society and Culture 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 "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Society and Culture
"To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Society and Culture blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Society and Culture
"I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Society and Culture My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Society and Culture
He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Society and Culture "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Society and Culture
Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Society and Culture Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Society and Culture
