"The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Society and Culture My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Society and Culture
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Society and Culture "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Society and Culture
No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Society and Culture Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Society and Culture
"To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Society and Culture "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Society and Culture
I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Society and Culture "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Society and Culture
The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Society and Culture If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Society and Culture
"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Society and Culture
I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Society and Culture I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Society and Culture
"Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Society and Culture "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Society and Culture
A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Society and Culture In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway "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
Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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 "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Society and Culture "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Society and Culture
