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"Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Society and Culture
There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Society and Culture The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein 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 May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Society and Culture
The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Society and Culture "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Society and Culture
If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Society and Culture We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Society and Culture
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau "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) The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Society and Culture Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Society and Culture
Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. 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 Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Society and Culture
"A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Society and Culture Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Society and Culture
Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Society and Culture See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Society and Culture
Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) 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 When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Society and Culture Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Society and Culture
Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Society and Culture I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Society and Culture
As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh 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 Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Society and Culture You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Society and Culture
