Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Society and Culture The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Society and Culture
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Society and Culture Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Society and Culture
"Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Society and Culture "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Society and Culture
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Society and Culture Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Society and Culture
"Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Society and Culture I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Society and Culture
I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) 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 Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Society and Culture Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Society and Culture
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot "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) It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Society and Culture I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Society and Culture
"There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) 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, Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Society and Culture Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Society and Culture
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh 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 In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Society and Culture If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers 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 Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Society and Culture
"Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Society and Culture "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Society and Culture
I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Society and Culture
