Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce 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 "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Society and Culture Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Society and Culture
If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Society and Culture "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Society and Culture
Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Society and Culture The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Society and Culture
Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Society and Culture "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Society and Culture
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Society and Culture People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Society and Culture
The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Society and Culture You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford 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
The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Society and Culture
"If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Society and Culture In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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
Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Society and Culture Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Society and Culture
"Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Society and Culture Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost 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) Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Society and Culture I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Society and Culture
