But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln "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 "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Society and Culture
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise 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 Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Society and Culture Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Society and Culture
The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Society and Culture
"I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous "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) Society and Culture Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Society and Culture
If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Society and Culture "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Society and Culture
All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. 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 A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Society and Culture "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Society and Culture
"May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Society and Culture
Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Society and Culture The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Society and Culture
Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Society and Culture What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill 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" Society and Culture
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Society and Culture When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Society and Culture
Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Society and Culture Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Society and Culture
