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He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Society and Culture It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Society and Culture
"Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Society and Culture I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Society and Culture
Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Society and Culture We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Society and Culture
"If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Society and Culture The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Society and Culture
The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Society and Culture "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Society and Culture
We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei 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. Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Society and Culture 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. A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Society and Culture
Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Society and Culture "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Society and Culture
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 Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous 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 Society and Culture Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Society and Culture
Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! 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 Society and Culture "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) 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. "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Society and Culture
When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke 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 Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Society and Culture the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Society and Culture
All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Society and Culture You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Society and Culture
