Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Society and Culture None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Society and Culture
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 Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen 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 You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Society and Culture
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Society and Culture The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Society and Culture
blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Society and Culture I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Society and Culture
Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Society and Culture Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Society and Culture
A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha Society and Culture Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Society and Culture
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Society and Culture "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." That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Society and Culture
Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Society and Culture "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Society and Culture
Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Society and Culture "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Society and Culture
"See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Society and Culture
Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Society and Culture
