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You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Society and Culture I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Society and Culture
You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Society and Culture If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Society and Culture
Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Society and Culture "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Society and Culture
Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Society and Culture The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Society and Culture
"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Society and Culture "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Society and Culture
"To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy "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) "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Society and Culture
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Society and Culture The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Society and Culture
Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Society and Culture "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Society and Culture
"Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Society and Culture Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Society and Culture
"Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Society and Culture "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Society and Culture
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Society and Culture America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Society and Culture
