Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Society and Culture Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Society and Culture
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Society and Culture Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Society and Culture
Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Society and Culture A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Society and Culture
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Society and Culture My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "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
"Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Society and Culture Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Society and Culture
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Society and Culture "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Society and Culture
blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( 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 "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Society and Culture The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Society and Culture
Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) "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 Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Society and Culture "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Society and Culture
Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Society and Culture If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Society and Culture
It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal 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 The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Society and Culture 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
everythin "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Society and Culture
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Society and Culture Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B 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 Society and Culture
