Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Society and Culture "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Society and Culture
Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Society and Culture Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Society and Culture My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Society and Culture
It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Society and Culture "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Society and Culture
"Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Society and Culture "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the 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 Society and Culture
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Society and Culture I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture
He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Society and Culture Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Society and Culture
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Society and Culture Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Society and Culture
There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Society and Culture "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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
>From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Society and Culture "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Society and Culture
"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Society and Culture We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken 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 America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Society and Culture
