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-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Society and Culture To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Society and Culture
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
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-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
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- Goethe Society and Culture There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
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-- Antonio Machado A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Society and Culture
I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
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-- Rainer Maria Rilke Society and Culture The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
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-- Lynda Barry When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
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-- John Renmerde Society and Culture
[You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
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-- Barbara Howar A clever man commits no minor blunders.
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-- Anita Wise Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Society and Culture
Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Society and Culture If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture
Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton Society and Culture Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Society and Culture
There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Society and Culture Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Society and Culture
I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
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-- Sioux Indian Prayer And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Society and Culture
I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Society and Culture No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Society and Culture
"Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Society and Culture Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Society and Culture
To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Society and Culture "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Society and Culture
