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Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.... -- Carl Zwanzig I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day. -- Vincent Van Gogh "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind. -- John Allston "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Society and Culture "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony, remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs. -- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. -- Abraham Lincoln In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty. -- Christopher Morley Society and Culture Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Mistakes are the portals of discovery. -- James Joyce "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish. -- Albert Einstein In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on. -- Robert Frost Society and Culture A friend is a gift you give yourself. -- Robert Louis Stevenson A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. -- Thomas Carruthers Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust. -- Grover Cleveland Society and Culture If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one. -- Mother Teresa I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again. -- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time. -- George Bernard Shaw "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Society and Culture 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 Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. -- Henry Ford Society and Culture A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently. -- St. Augustine Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer. -- Mark Twain When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. -- Hunter S. Thompson What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. -- Crow When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Society and Culture "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts. -- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. -- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified. -- Aesop Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did. -- Anonymous Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important. -- Lisa Hoffman "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) We do not remember days; we remember moments. -- Anonymous Society and Culture blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) He who hesitates is a damned fool. - Mae West Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too. -- H. L. Mencken Society and Culture "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) "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) Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter. -- Anonymous Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. -- Anonymous Society and Culture All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration. -- D. H. Lawrence "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Society and Culture "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. -- Tom Robbins Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work. -- John G. Pollard Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will. -- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway 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 Society and Culture A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's reall I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. - Sir Winston Churchill Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The- Box. -- Wil Shriner Society and Culture It is better to be looked over than overlooked. -- Mae West Live out of your imagination, not your history. -- Stephen Covey This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises, promotions, and other signs of appreciation. -- Anonymous then the world 's mine oyster -- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Someday is not a day of the week. -- Anon. Society and Culture "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely. -- Buddha An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible. -- Alfred A. Knopf Society and Culture "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man. -- Lana Turner If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one. -- Mother Teresa "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Society and Culture If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed -- Kate Halverson A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are. -- Gore Vidal "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Society and Culture "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it. -- Helen Roland Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between. -- David Letterman They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to run his, either. -- Anonymous I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. -- Virginia Woolf Society and Culture Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. -- Oscar Wilde To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect. --Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Society and Culture The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life. -- Andrew Brown Trust everybody, but cut the cards. -- Finley Peter Dunne The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy the waking hours much more. -- Woody Allen Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some. -- Alfred Hitchcock Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item. -- Anonymous Society and Culture Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig. -- Anon. I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did. -- Henry James Friends applaud, the Comedy is over. -- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Society and Culture
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