It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Society and Culture "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Society and Culture
Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Society and Culture While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous "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 Society and Culture
Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Society and Culture "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Society and Culture
"Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Society and Culture The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Society and Culture
"I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Society and Culture
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Society and Culture Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Society and Culture To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Society and Culture "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Society and Culture
Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Society and Culture He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop 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 "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Society and Culture
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 When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. 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" Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Society and Culture The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Society and Culture
Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Society and Culture In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Society and Culture
