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"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Society and Culture Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen 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 I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Society and Culture Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" 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 Society and Culture
"By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Society and Culture A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Society and Culture
blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Society and Culture A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture
They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 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 In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Society and Culture Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture
I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Society and Culture
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Society and Culture Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Society and Culture
He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Society and Culture Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Society and Culture
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Society and Culture Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Society and Culture
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Society and Culture More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Society and Culture
If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Society and Culture "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) "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Society and Culture
