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history.
-- George Bernard Shaw "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Society and Culture Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Society and Culture
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) Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Society and Culture Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Society and Culture
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Society and Culture Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Society and Culture
Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Society and Culture Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Society and Culture
"No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) "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" If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Society and Culture Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Society and Culture
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) "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) Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Society and Culture Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Society and Culture
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Society and Culture The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Society and Culture
It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Society and Culture The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Society and Culture
"If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Society and Culture Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz 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 Society and Culture
Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide 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 "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Society and Culture The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Society and Culture
Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain 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 Society and Culture We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Society and Culture
