The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Society and Culture "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Society and Culture
Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht 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 There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Society and Culture There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Society and Culture
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Society and Culture Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Society and Culture
The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Society and Culture Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Society and Culture
A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Society and Culture Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Society and Culture
"No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Society and Culture Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Society and Culture
You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Society and Culture "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Society and Culture
The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher 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 Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Society and Culture "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Society and Culture
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Society and Culture Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Society and Culture
Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Society and Culture "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Society and Culture
"What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Society and Culture I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture
