"If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Society and Culture Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Society and Culture
"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Society and Culture Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Society and Culture
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Society and Culture I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Society and Culture
He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) "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 expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Society and Culture Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Society and Culture
I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Society and Culture A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Society and Culture
The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Society and Culture Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Society and Culture
"Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Society and Culture "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Society and Culture
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Society and Culture Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha Society and Culture
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Society and Culture
Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Society and Culture "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Society and Culture
Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Society and Culture "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Society and Culture
