War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual 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 "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Society and Culture
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Society and Culture If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Society and Culture
Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Society and Culture "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Society and Culture
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Society and Culture
"Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla Society and Culture Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Society and Culture
Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Society and Culture "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Society and Culture
Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Society and Culture Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Society and Culture
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Society and Culture "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Society and Culture
Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Society and Culture The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Society and Culture
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Society and Culture Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Society and Culture
Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers 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 Society and Culture
