"To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e "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) Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Society and Culture Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Society and Culture
"Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Society and Culture For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Society and Culture
"Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) "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) Society and Culture "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Society and Culture
A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur "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) "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Society and Culture My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Society and Culture
"It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Society and Culture Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Society and Culture
"You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Society and Culture The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Society and Culture
Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Society and Culture blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Society and Culture
Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Society and Culture blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Society and Culture
"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Society and Culture Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Society and Culture
"The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Society and Culture "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Society and Culture
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Society and Culture When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Society and Culture
