Society of Kastorians the OMONOIA - Includes society news and events. Also serves as a resource for regional history, culture, and museums.
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Society and Culture Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Society and Culture
"To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Society and Culture "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Society and Culture
Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson 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 fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Society and Culture "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Society and Culture
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Society and Culture "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Society and Culture
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Society and Culture My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Society and Culture
I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture
Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Society and Culture There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Society and Culture
Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Society and Culture "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Society and Culture
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Society and Culture We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Society and Culture
"Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Society and Culture Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Society and Culture
"Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Society and Culture A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Society and Culture
