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Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Society and Culture The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes 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 Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Society and Culture
Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon 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 "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) "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Society and Culture It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Society and Culture
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Society and Culture Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Society and Culture
I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Society and Culture
Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Society and Culture And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Society and Culture
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Society and Culture It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Society and Culture
Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) 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 "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Society and Culture If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Society and Culture
Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Society and Culture Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Society and Culture
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Society and Culture I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Society and Culture
Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Society and Culture Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Society and Culture
The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Society and Culture The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Society and Culture
