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 There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Society and Culture The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Society and Culture
"There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Society and Culture Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Society and Culture
If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 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 What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Society and Culture "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Society and Culture
In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Society and Culture "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Society and Culture Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Society and Culture
"Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Society and Culture blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Society and Culture
Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Society and Culture Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture
They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Society and Culture I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Society and Culture
"Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Society and Culture "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Society and Culture
"I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Society and Culture Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Society and Culture
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Society and Culture "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
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