Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein 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 If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Society and Culture There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Society and Culture
It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Society and Culture Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Society and Culture
The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli 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 Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Society and Culture blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Society and Culture
"If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Society and Culture If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Society and Culture
You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Society and Culture Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Society and Culture
It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic 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 We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Society and Culture Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Society and Culture
We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Society and Culture Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Society and Culture
The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Society and Culture I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Society and Culture
In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Society and Culture Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. 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 Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture
Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Society and Culture If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Society and Culture
I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Society and Culture Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Society and Culture
