God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Society and Culture It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Society and Culture
I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd 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) Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe Society and Culture Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Society and Culture
And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Society and Culture Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Society and Culture
Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde "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') "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Society and Culture "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Society and Culture
When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) May you never leave your marriage alive. blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Society and Culture Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Society and Culture
"I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Society and Culture Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Society and Culture
Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Society and Culture It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton Society and Culture
Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture
If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Society and Culture Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Society and Culture
Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Man and wife make one fool. Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Society and Culture "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Society and Culture
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker 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 May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Society and Culture "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Society and Culture
