Joe and Jackie Jones - A traditional boaters' wedding taking place on the canal towpath.
Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous 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 Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Society and Culture If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Society and Culture
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Society and Culture I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Society and Culture
I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Society and Culture Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken "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) The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Society and Culture
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Society and Culture You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Society and Culture
Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward 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 There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Society and Culture
For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Society and Culture I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Society and Culture
"One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Society and Culture "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Society and Culture
Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Society and Culture We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Society and Culture
Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Society and Culture All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Society and Culture
Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Society and Culture "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Society and Culture
If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Society and Culture >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) "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 Society and Culture
