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The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig My other wife is beautiful. Society and Culture If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Society and Culture
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Society and Culture If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Society and Culture
We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Society and Culture A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture
"I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) "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) "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Society and Culture There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln 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 To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Society and Culture
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 "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) 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, "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Society and Culture Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Society and Culture
I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) 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 Nietzsche Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Society and Culture It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
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Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Society and Culture Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Society and Culture
"How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) 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
I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Society and Culture Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Society and Culture
It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Society and Culture "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture
