Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway 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 Society and Culture
The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Society and Culture Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward 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 No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Society and Culture
If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Society and Culture I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Society and Culture
Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Society and Culture Marriage is a rest period between romances. Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Society and Culture
"He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Society and Culture All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Society and Culture
Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Society and Culture Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken 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 The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Society and Culture Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Society and Culture
"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) There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Society and Culture Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Society and Culture
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Society and Culture then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana 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.
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"When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins 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 If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Society and Culture Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H Society and Culture
"If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Society and Culture Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea 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 Society and Culture
