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Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Society and Culture By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture
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 I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Society and Culture Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Society and Culture
All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Society and Culture Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Society and Culture
"Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte 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 Society and Culture "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Society and Culture
"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Society and Culture Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Society and Culture
He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Society and Culture Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Society and Culture
"Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Society and Culture I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Society and Culture
To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Society and Culture Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Society and Culture
Spinster: A bachelor's wife. "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Society and Culture If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Society and Culture
"All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Society and Culture Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Society and Culture
The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Society and Culture Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Society and Culture
