"It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) "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) In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Society and Culture Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Society and Culture
The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Society and Culture When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Society and Culture
A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Society and Culture Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Society and Culture
"Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms 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 A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Society and Culture The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Society and Culture
If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Society and Culture There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Society and Culture
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) 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 A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Society and Culture "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Society and Culture
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Society and Culture Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Society and Culture
The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Society and Culture The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Society and Culture
"Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Society and Culture First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Society and Culture
History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Society and Culture Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Society and Culture
Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Society and Culture "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Society and Culture
