Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Society and Culture We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Society and Culture
Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow "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 Society and Culture Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Society and Culture
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Society and Culture "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Society and Culture
"Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Society and Culture Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Society and Culture
He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Society and Culture "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Society and Culture
The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Society and Culture I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Society and Culture
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Society and Culture "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Society and Culture
Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning "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 I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Society and Culture A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Society and Culture
Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Society and Culture While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Society and Culture
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Society and Culture Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Society and Culture
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Society and Culture "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Society and Culture
