The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Society and Culture Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Society and Culture
"If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Society and Culture In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Society and Culture
What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Society and Culture "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Society and Culture
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Society and Culture Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol 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 There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Society and Culture
"A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Society and Culture We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Society and Culture
I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Society and Culture The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture
If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Society and Culture By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Society and Culture
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 "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Society and Culture The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Society and Culture
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous 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 "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Society and Culture 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 A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Society and Culture
Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Society and Culture If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Society and Culture
This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Society and Culture
