Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Society and Culture Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Society and Culture
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Society and Culture "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Society and Culture
Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Society and Culture What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Society and Culture
"Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Society and Culture Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Society and Culture
Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous 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. I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Society and Culture Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Society and Culture
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Society and Culture "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Society and Culture
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Society and Culture "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Society and Culture
Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Society and Culture
Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Society and Culture Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Society and Culture
There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole 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, Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
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He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Society and Culture Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. 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 To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
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