"Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Society and Culture The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Society and Culture
Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Society and Culture I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Society and Culture
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Society and Culture The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Society and Culture
My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Society and Culture 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 When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Society and Culture
Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Society and Culture Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Society and Culture
One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha Society and Culture
I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Society and Culture "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Society and Culture
"Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) 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 Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Society and Culture Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture
The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Society and Culture 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 Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Society and Culture
Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Society and Culture Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Society and Culture
"There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside "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) "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Society and Culture Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Society and Culture
