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-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Society and Culture Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld 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
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If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Society and Culture
All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton "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) Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Society and Culture Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Society and Culture
"Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Society and Culture Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Society and Culture
blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo 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
tha The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland 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 "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Society and Culture
"To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Society and Culture In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Society and Culture
Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
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-- Brendan Hills "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Society and Culture "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Society and Culture
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Society and Culture Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Society and Culture
"One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Society and Culture Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Society and Culture
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins 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 Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Society and Culture
"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 The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Society and Culture The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard 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 Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Society and Culture
