"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Society and Culture "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Society and Culture
Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Society and Culture
Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Society and Culture I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Society and Culture
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) 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) He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Society and Culture
I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Society and Culture "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "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 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
If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Society and Culture Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Society and Culture
"I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Society and Culture "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Society and Culture
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Society and Culture The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Society and Culture
The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Society and Culture It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 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 Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Society and Culture
No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Society and Culture "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Society and Culture
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi 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 Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Society and Culture Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Society and Culture
