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The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Society and Culture Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Society and Culture
"I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Society and Culture Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Society and Culture
Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Society and Culture Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Society and Culture
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 Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist 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 Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith "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) Society and Culture Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Society and Culture
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Society and Culture Marriage is a rest period between romances. A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Society and Culture
"Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Society and Culture Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Society and Culture
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 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 "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Society and Culture The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture
It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Society and Culture A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Society and Culture
In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. 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 "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Society and Culture Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Society and Culture
A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Society and Culture A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Society and Culture
Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Society and Culture Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Society and Culture
