I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Society and Culture We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Society and Culture
When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Society and Culture "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Society and Culture
"In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Society and Culture The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Society and Culture
blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain "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 Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Society and Culture
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Society and Culture "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Society and Culture
"It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Society and Culture "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Society and Culture I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Society and Culture
Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Society and Culture
If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Society and Culture
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Society and Culture "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Society and Culture
When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Society and Culture "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Society and Culture
