Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Society and Culture Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words 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 Society and Culture
You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach 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 What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Society and Culture
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Society and Culture If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey "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) Society and Culture
Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Society and Culture 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 The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt 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
My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Society and Culture
No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Society and Culture Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Society and Culture
What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Society and Culture Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture
To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Society and Culture "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Society and Culture
In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Society and Culture Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Society and Culture
"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) "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Society and Culture I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Society and Culture
Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Society and Culture I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Society and Culture
