Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Society and Culture When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "'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) Society and Culture
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner 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 Society and Culture My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Society and Culture
"Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Society and Culture "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) "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Society and Culture
The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov 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 A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Society and Culture It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Society and Culture
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Society and Culture "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a 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
Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Society and Culture If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Society and Culture
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Society and Culture Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Society and Culture "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture
It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Society and Culture "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Society and Culture
I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Society and Culture "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Society and Culture
"Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Society and Culture I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Society and Culture
