And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Society and Culture A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Society and Culture
Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) 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 Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Society and Culture "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Society and Culture
A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Society and Culture Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Society and Culture
A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Society and Culture "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Society and Culture
"Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) 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 I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Society and Culture Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Society and Culture
There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Society and Culture Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Society and Culture
"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Society and Culture The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Society and Culture
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Society and Culture 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 just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Society and Culture
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Society and Culture Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) 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 Society and Culture
Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln "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) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Society and Culture Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Society and Culture
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Society and Culture
