Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Society and Culture Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law 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
There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Society and Culture 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 The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Society and Culture
"I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Society and Culture A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Society and Culture
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Society and Culture If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Society and Culture
There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero "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) I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Society and Culture Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Society and Culture
"Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Society and Culture We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Society and Culture
Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Man and wife make one fool. Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Society and Culture "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture
Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Society and Culture >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Society and Culture
"Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Society and Culture Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Society and Culture
All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Society and Culture A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Society and Culture
"It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Society and Culture "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture
