Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "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) Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Society and Culture We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Society and Culture
"Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Society and Culture "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan 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 To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Society and Culture "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Society and Culture
"Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Society and Culture He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Society and Culture
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Society and Culture A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Society and Culture
Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Society and Culture "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Society and Culture
I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Society and Culture The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Society and Culture
Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup 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
stupid from Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Society and Culture Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Society and Culture
"Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Society and Culture A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Society and Culture
Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' Society and Culture Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Society and Culture
"What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
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