Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine 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 is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Society and Culture "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Society and Culture
I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Society and Culture "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Society and Culture
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Society and Culture "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Society and Culture
"Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Society and Culture
Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Society and Culture Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Society and Culture
The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Society and Culture "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Society and Culture
The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Society and Culture The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Society and Culture
"People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Society and Culture
"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Society and Culture "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) 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 Society and Culture
Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Society and Culture Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Society and Culture
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Society and Culture "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Society and Culture
