julia stiles 10 things i hate about you poem

The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is noninterference with their own peculiar ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume to interfere by violence with ours. ~William James



Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one. ~Abbott Joseph Liebling, "Do You Belong in Journalism?" New Yorker, 4 May 1960



The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he discovers that his great-grandfather was a pirate. ~Bern Williams



If suffering brought wisdom, the dentist�s office would be full of luminous ideas. ~Mason Cooley



Life... is like a box of chocolates - a cheap, thoughtless, perfunctory gift that no one ever asks for, unreturnable because all you get back is another box of chocolates. So, you're stuck with mostly undefinable whipped mint crap, mindlessly wolfed down when there's nothing else to eat while you're watching the game. Sure, once is a while you get a peanut butter cup or an English toffee but it's gone too fast and the taste is fleeting. In the end, you are left with nothing but broken bits filled with hardened jelly and teeth-shattering nuts, which, if you are desperate enough to eat, leaves nothing but an empty box of useless brown paper. ~The X-Files



Trust me, death is the best argument for moisturizer. ~Coupling, "Sex, Death and Nudity," original airdate 26 May 2000, written by Steven Moffat, spoken by the character Sally



What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. ~Aristotle



For the man sound in body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously. ~George Gissing, "Winter," The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft, 1903



Each and every time, a new generation has risen up and done what's needed to be done. Today we are called once more - and it is time for our generation to answer that call. For that is our unyielding faith - that in the face of impossible odds, people who love their country can change it. ~Barack Obama, Announcement for President, 2007 Feb 10, Springfield, Illinois



What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook. ~Henry David Thoreau



Retirement is like a long vacation in Las Vegas. The goal is to enjoy it the fullest, but not so fully that you run out of money. ~Jonathan Clements Retirement is like a long vacation in Las Vegas. The goal is to enjoy it the fullest, but not so fully that you run out of money. ~Jonathan Clements



Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. ~Bill Gates, Business @ the Speed of Thought



Good-looking girls break hearts, and goodhearted girls mend them. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior. ~Hippolyte Taine



Angels are messengers, but sometimes we misunderstand their language. ~Linda Solegato



The rich would have to eat money if the poor did not provide food. ~Russian Proverb



I went to a cafe that advertised breakfast anytime, so I ordered French Toast during the Rennaisance. ~Steven Wright



A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes. ~Hugh Downs



When a woman comes to her glass, she does not employ her time in making herself look more advantageously what she really is, but endeavours to be as much another creature as she possibly can. Whether this happens because they stay so long and attend their work so diligently that they forget the faces and persons which they first sat down with, or whatever it is, they seldom rise from the toilet the same woman they appeared when they began to dress. ~Joseph Addison



O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! that we should, with joy, pleasance, revel, and applause, transform ourselves into beasts! ~William Shakespeare, Othello