In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Social Sciences In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin "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 Social Sciences
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Social Sciences One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Social Sciences
"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 Wilhelm Nietzsche) "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Social Sciences "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Social Sciences
My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Social Sciences To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Social Sciences
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Social Sciences "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Social Sciences
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Social Sciences Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Social Sciences
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 Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Social Sciences "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Social Sciences
Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Social Sciences "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Social Sciences
Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Social Sciences One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Social Sciences
"Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Social Sciences Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Social Sciences
It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Social Sciences Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Social Sciences
