A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Society and Culture Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Society and Culture
"You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Society and Culture Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Society and Culture
"If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Society and Culture Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd 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 In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Society and Culture
"A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Society and Culture My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! "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) Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Society and Culture "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Society and Culture
"I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi 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 "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) 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 When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Society and Culture
"Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Society and Culture Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Society and Culture
A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Society and Culture "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) 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 Society and Culture
"Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Society and Culture The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Marriage is a rest period between romances. Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Society and Culture
I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Society and Culture Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Society and Culture
This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Society and Culture "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Society and Culture
