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He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Society and Culture No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Society and Culture
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Society and Culture Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Society and Culture
To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Society and Culture We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Society and Culture
In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Society and Culture Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
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Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Society and Culture Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Society and Culture
Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset 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 "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Society and Culture A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Society and Culture
blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Society and Culture For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Society and Culture
"Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln "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) Society and Culture Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Society and Culture
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Society and Culture When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Society and Culture
"In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Society and Culture It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Society and Culture
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 "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
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