I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Society and Culture
Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Society and Culture Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Society and Culture
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Society and Culture "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Society and Culture
Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard "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) "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Society and Culture "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Society and Culture
"You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset 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 I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) 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
Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Society and Culture It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Society and Culture
If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Society and Culture Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Society and Culture
This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Society and Culture Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Society and Culture
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Society and Culture Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin "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) Society and Culture
Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture "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) Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Society and Culture
I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Society and Culture Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Society and Culture
