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Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Society and Culture "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Society and Culture
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture
"If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position 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 "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Society and Culture
"Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Society and Culture It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture
"True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Society and Culture Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Society and Culture
"... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Society and Culture
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus 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 "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Society and Culture
Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr "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 "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Society and Culture He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Society and Culture
The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Society and Culture What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Society and Culture
Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Society and Culture A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Society and Culture
"A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Society and Culture There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture
