The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Society and Culture All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Society and Culture
Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup 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
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Society and Culture
If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill 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 "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Society and Culture
Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Society and Culture "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Society and Culture
"People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Society and Culture Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and Society and Culture Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Society and Culture
War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Society and Culture I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Society and Culture
How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Society and Culture Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Society and Culture
Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Society and Culture Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 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 When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Society and Culture Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Society and Culture
"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Society and Culture Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Society and Culture
