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Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Society and Culture "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen 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. Society and Culture
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Society and Culture "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Society and Culture
"Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Society and Culture "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Society and Culture
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Society and Culture "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Society and Culture
Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Society and Culture You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Society and Culture
"Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Society and Culture An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Society and Culture
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 Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Society and Culture "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Society and Culture
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Society and Culture Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Society and Culture
Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Society and Culture In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) 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 Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Society and Culture "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Society and Culture
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Society and Culture Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Society and Culture
