While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Society and Culture Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Society and Culture
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Society and Culture "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne "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 No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Society and Culture
Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Society and Culture Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Society and Culture
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Society and Culture I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Society and Culture
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Society and Culture "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Society and Culture
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb 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 Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Society and Culture 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 "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Society and Culture
Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Society and Culture "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Society and Culture
"Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Society and Culture If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Society and Culture
"Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Society and Culture "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Society and Culture
They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Society and Culture You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Society and Culture
A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Society and Culture Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Society and Culture
