"Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Society and Culture I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Society and Culture
Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Society and Culture Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Society and Culture
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Society and Culture It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Society and Culture
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Society and Culture "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s 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 Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture
The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Society and Culture Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Society and Culture
"Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Society and Culture When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Society and Culture
Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Society and Culture Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Society and Culture
The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Society and Culture You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Society and Culture
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Society and Culture I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Society and Culture
"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Society and Culture In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Society and Culture
"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) "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Society and Culture Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Society and Culture
