Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Society and Culture Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Society and Culture
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Society and Culture We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Society and Culture
At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Society and Culture If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Society and Culture
"I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Society and Culture My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Society and Culture
True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Society and Culture "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Society and Culture It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Society and Culture
The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Society and Culture blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Society and Culture
Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Society and Culture What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Society and Culture
Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Society and Culture Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Society and Culture
Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Society and Culture Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Society and Culture
To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Society and Culture You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Society and Culture
