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I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Society and Culture Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All 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 It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Society and Culture "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Society and Culture
"If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) 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 As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein 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" When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Society and Culture And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Society and Culture
I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Society and Culture Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Society and Culture
People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Society and Culture Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Society and Culture
When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Society and Culture "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Society and Culture
I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Society and Culture Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Society and Culture
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Society and Culture The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac Society and Culture
The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Society and Culture The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Society and Culture
blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Society and Culture The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Society and Culture
"Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may Society and Culture A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Society and Culture
