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) "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Society and Culture Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Society and Culture
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Society and Culture Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Society and Culture
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Society and Culture "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Society and Culture
Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Society and Culture Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Society and Culture
History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Society and Culture I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Society and Culture
The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Society and Culture "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Society and Culture
I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson 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 "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire 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. -- Guitry There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Society and Culture
When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Society and Culture Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Society and Culture
Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Society and Culture Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Society and Culture
Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Society and Culture The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
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"Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Society and Culture I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Society and Culture
