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A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Society and Culture "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture
Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken 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 We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Society and Culture Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Society and Culture
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Society and Culture "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Society and Culture
"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) If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms 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 Society and Culture Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Society and Culture
If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Society and Culture Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Society and Culture
"I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Society and Culture Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Society and Culture
I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Society and Culture Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Society and Culture
"I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "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 There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Society and Culture
I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Society and Culture If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson 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 Society and Culture
Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Society and Culture Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Society and Culture
We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Society and Culture "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture
