blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little "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 I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Society and Culture "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Society and Culture
Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Society and Culture Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Society and Culture
"Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Society and Culture You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Society and Culture
There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Society and Culture Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Society and Culture
"Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Society and Culture Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Society and Culture
The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Society and Culture I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Society and Culture
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Society and Culture The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost "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 can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard 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 I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Society and Culture I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Society and Culture
"Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Society and Culture "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Society and Culture
Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Society and Culture There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Society and Culture
No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Society and Culture "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) "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) Society and Culture
