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If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Society and Culture I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Society and Culture
The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Society and Culture The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Society and Culture
Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Society and Culture I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Society and Culture
It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Society and Culture The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Society and Culture
My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Society and Culture If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Society and Culture
Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Society and Culture "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Society and Culture
"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. 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, My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Society and Culture
"The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Society and Culture "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
"There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Society and Culture It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Society and Culture
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "Think off-center." (George Carlin) It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture
A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Society and Culture
