"Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Society and Culture
The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Society and Culture 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 The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Society and Culture
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th 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 Society and Culture
Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Society and Culture Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture
Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Society and Culture All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title 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 It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Society and Culture
If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Society and Culture Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Society and Culture
The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at 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 In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Society and Culture "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Society and Culture
"Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain 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 "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Society and Culture With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Society and Culture
I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Society and Culture By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Society and Culture 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Society and Culture
In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer 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 "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Society and Culture Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Society and Culture
