Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Society and Culture Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Society and Culture
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Society and Culture "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Society and Culture
Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Society and Culture "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Society and Culture
I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Society and Culture Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Society and Culture
Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Society and Culture The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Society and Culture
Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. May you never leave your marriage alive. Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Society and Culture "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Society and Culture
Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley 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. "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Society and Culture "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Society and Culture
In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Society and Culture Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn 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 "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Society and Culture
It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Society and Culture Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Society and Culture
Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Society and Culture Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands 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 Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre "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) Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Society and Culture
