"The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Society and Culture To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Society and Culture
You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Society and Culture It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Society and Culture
May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Society and Culture Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Society and Culture
"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 The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Society and Culture It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Society and Culture
"People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Society and Culture
The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple 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 "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Society and Culture It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Society and Culture
Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen 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 Society and Culture Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Society and Culture
When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Society and Culture I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Society and Culture
Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Society and Culture If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Society and Culture
These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Society and Culture Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Society and Culture
