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"Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Society and Culture "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous "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) Society and Culture
You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Society and Culture Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Society and Culture
"All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Society and Culture Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Society and Culture
Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Society and Culture A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Society and Culture
"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Society and Culture "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Society and Culture
The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Society and Culture Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Society and Culture
I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Society and Culture Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Society and Culture
Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Society and Culture A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Society and Culture
Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
"There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Society and Culture "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Society and Culture
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Society and Culture "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Society and Culture
