Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Society and Culture
"A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Society and Culture "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Society and Culture
"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 "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Society and Culture I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Society and Culture
"God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Society and Culture Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) 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 Society and Culture
Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Society and Culture
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Society and Culture Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Society and Culture
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Society and Culture Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Society and Culture
"The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Society and Culture We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Society and Culture
Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Society and Culture He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture
Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Society and Culture Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Society and Culture
A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Society and Culture "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Society and Culture
