A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Society and Culture
"When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Society and Culture Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Society and Culture Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Society and Culture
"All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Society and Culture
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Society and Culture Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Society and Culture
Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) 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 Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Society and Culture "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Society and Culture
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie "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 Society and Culture Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Society and Culture
There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Society and Culture The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) 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 Society and Culture
Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. 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 To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Society and Culture
Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln Society and Culture 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 There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Society and Culture
We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Society and Culture A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill 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 Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
