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Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Society and Culture
Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Society and Culture A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) "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 Society and Culture
Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Society and Culture Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Society and Culture
"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Society and Culture "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Society and Culture
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 "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Society and Culture Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Society and Culture
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 Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Society and Culture There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Society and Culture
Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. 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 Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock 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" "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Society and Culture A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Society and Culture
"College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton 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 "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 Society and Culture your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Society and Culture
It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Society and Culture A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Society and Culture
Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Society and Culture Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Society and Culture
Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Society and Culture Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Society and Culture
