Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Society and Culture "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture
Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Society and Culture Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Society and Culture
"College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Society and Culture "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Society and Culture
The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Society and Culture He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Society and Culture
You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Society and Culture Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Society and Culture
Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Society and Culture Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Society and Culture
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Society and Culture Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway 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 Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is Society and Culture
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Society and Culture The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Society and Culture
I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN 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 "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Society and Culture Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Society and Culture
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White "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) Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Society and Culture When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Society and Culture
"I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) 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 I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Society and Culture Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Society and Culture
