There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Society and Culture Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Society and Culture
All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Society and Culture The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Society and Culture
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Society and Culture This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Society and Culture
The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Society and Culture Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Society and Culture
Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Society and Culture Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Society and Culture
The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Society and Culture If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Society and Culture
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton 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 A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Society and Culture I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Society and Culture
"He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Society and Culture Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Society and Culture
"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) Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Society and Culture Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Society and Culture
Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Society and Culture The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Society and Culture
"Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Society and Culture Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Society and Culture
