The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Society and Culture "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Society and Culture
Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Society and Culture It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Society and Culture Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Society and Culture
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Society and Culture Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Society and Culture
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Society and Culture Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Society and Culture
"Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Society and Culture Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Society and Culture
"Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Society and Culture I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Society and Culture
To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston 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 "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture
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 The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein 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 "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Society and Culture The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Society and Culture
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Society and Culture If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Society and Culture
"I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz 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 "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Society and Culture The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Society and Culture
