I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Society and Culture The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Society and Culture
It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith "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) "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Society and Culture "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) 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 I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Society and Culture
I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. 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,
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Society and Culture Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Society and Culture
"People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Society and Culture When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Society and Culture
Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Society and Culture You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture
Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Society and Culture Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Society and Culture
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Society and Culture Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Society and Culture
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Society and Culture Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Society and Culture
Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Society and Culture In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad 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
I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Society and Culture "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Society and Culture
"Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Society and Culture Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Society and Culture
