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Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Society and Culture People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Society and Culture "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Man and wife make one fool. Society and Culture
blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Society and Culture He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Society and Culture
"To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Society and Culture Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Society and Culture
An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Society and Culture The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Society and Culture
The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Society and Culture My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Society and Culture
The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Society and Culture blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Society and Culture
The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Society and Culture We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture
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 Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Society and Culture I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Society and Culture
The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Society and Culture "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Society and Culture
Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Society and Culture We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Society and Culture
