All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers 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 Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Society and Culture
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Society and Culture "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 Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Society and Culture
Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Society and Culture I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Society and Culture
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Society and Culture Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Society and Culture
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Society and Culture Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Society and Culture
Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Society and Culture The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Society and Culture
Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Society and Culture "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz 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 Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Society and Culture "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Society and Culture
Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Society and Culture Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Society and Culture
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Society and Culture Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Society and Culture
"Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Society and Culture Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board "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 "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Society and Culture
