Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) "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) I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Society and Culture Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Society and Culture
He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius 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 I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Society and Culture Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Society and Culture
Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Society and Culture My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Society and Culture
If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Society and Culture It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Society and Culture
Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Society and Culture "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Society and Culture
Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Society and Culture When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Society and Culture
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Society and Culture Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Society and Culture
"Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Society and Culture Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Society and Culture
History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Society and Culture Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Society and Culture
Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Society and Culture Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Society and Culture
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha 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, To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Society and Culture Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture
