I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo 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 Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Society and Culture "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Society and Culture
How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Society and Culture Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker Society and Culture
Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Society and Culture Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Society and Culture
Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Society and Culture An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Society and Culture
I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Society and Culture 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 "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Society and Culture Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Society and Culture
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Society and Culture A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr 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 I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
"Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Society and Culture Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Society and Culture
I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde What's new? Most of my wife. Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Society and Culture "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Society and Culture
Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake "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 The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Society and Culture Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Society and Culture
