If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Society and Culture The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht 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
The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Society and Culture I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Society and Culture
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Society and Culture Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Society and Culture
"Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Society and Culture If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture
I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Society and Culture When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland 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, Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Society and Culture Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Society and Culture
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Society and Culture Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Society and Culture
I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Society and Culture "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Society and Culture
I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Society and Culture "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Society and Culture
"Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Society and Culture "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Society and Culture
It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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) I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Society and Culture Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Society and Culture
