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Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Society and Culture If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Society and Culture
Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Society and Culture Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Society and Culture
Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Society and Culture The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture
Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Society and Culture Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain 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 "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Society and Culture
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Society and Culture Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Society and Culture
I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Society and Culture "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Society and Culture
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Society and Culture A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture
"I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Society and Culture Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Society and Culture
A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Society and Culture He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Society and Culture
There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Society and Culture "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Society and Culture
"I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Society and Culture If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Society and Culture
