"We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Society and Culture I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Society and Culture
"Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Society and Culture "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Society and Culture
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Society and Culture You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Society and Culture
"Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Society and Culture Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Society and Culture
"This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry 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 Society and Culture Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Society and Culture
Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Society and Culture "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Society and Culture
We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Society and Culture "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Society and Culture
My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Society and Culture How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous 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. Society and Culture
"When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Society and Culture Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Society and Culture
Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Society and Culture
Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Society and Culture "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) "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
