Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Society and Culture It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Society and Culture
Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) 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 Society and Culture Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Society and Culture
Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 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 It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Society and Culture "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Society and Culture
"One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Society and Culture Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Society and Culture
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Society and Culture I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Society and Culture
Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Society and Culture "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Society and Culture
"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 Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain 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 Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Society and Culture Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Society and Culture
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell "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) We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Society and Culture I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Society and Culture
A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Society and Culture The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Society and Culture
Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Society and Culture "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Society and Culture
I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Society and Culture And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Society and Culture
