Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw "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) "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Society and Culture Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Society and Culture
You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Society and Culture "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Society and Culture
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Society and Culture If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Society and Culture
Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Society and Culture "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Society and Culture
I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. "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) Society and Culture Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Society and Culture
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Society and Culture The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe Society and Culture
"He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Society and Culture "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Society and Culture
There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri 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 A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Society and Culture
"You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. 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 Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Society and Culture
"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" Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. "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 The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Society and Culture There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Society and Culture
