What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Society and Culture If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Society and Culture
Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Society and Culture To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Society and Culture
"We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Society and Culture Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Society and Culture
Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Society and Culture I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Society and Culture
Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Society and Culture Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley 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 "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Society and Culture
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Society and Culture Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Society and Culture
"It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Society and Culture Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Society and Culture
What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Society and Culture Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Society and Culture
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. "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) You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Society and Culture As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Society and Culture
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Society and Culture Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Society and Culture
He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Society and Culture My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Society and Culture
