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Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Society and Culture Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Society and Culture
"The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Society and Culture We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Society and Culture
"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Society and Culture "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Society and Culture
A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I 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 The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Society and Culture
If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Society and Culture Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Society and Culture Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
"Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Society and Culture Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Society and Culture
"Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Society and Culture "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Society and Culture
Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln 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 "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Society and Culture Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Society and Culture
Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Society and Culture "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Society and Culture
A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Society and Culture I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture
